The Oxford companion to aboriginal art and culture / general editors, Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale ; cultural editor, Robyne Bancroft ; editorial and research assistants, Tsari Anderson, Victoria Haskins, Bernadette Hince, Katherine Russell, Lani Russell, Lia Szokalski, Helen Skeat, Christine Watson, and Christine Winter
Published
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 2000
Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000
xxvi, 758 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 26 cm
regular print
Contents
Part 1. Foundations of being: 1. Religion -- 2. Ritual and sacred sites -- 3. Kinship and gender -- Colonial and psot-colonial scenes: 4. Colonial continuities and discontinuities -- 5. Rock art revisited -- 6. Arnhem Land -- 7. Between islands -- 8. Queensland -- 9. Central Australia -- 10. The Kimberley -- 11. The southern states -- Renegotiating tradition: 12. Urban Aboriginal art -- 13. Film and communications -- 14. Literature -- 15. Music -- 16. Performance -- 17. Fibre-work and textiles -- 18. Cultural meeting places -- 19. Living spaces -- The public face of aboriginality: 20. Aboriginalities -- 21. Reception and recognition of Aboriginal art -- 22. Cross-cultural exchange -- 23. The way ahead -- Part 2. Alphabetical entries -- Appendix. Regional maps
Summary
The most comprehensive and important work of its kind. The book covers everything from documented archaeological traditions and art styles, through to the development of the remarkably diverse contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art practices that have attracted so much attention in recent years