| Description |
xvii, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Ancestral connections : art and an aboriginal system of knowledge / Howard Morphy. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Art for Sale -- 3. Yolngu Society: An Outline -- 4. The Rights to Paint -- 5. Inside and Outside: The Yolngu System of Knowledge -- 6. Paintings as Meaningful Objects -- 7. The Meanings of Paintings in Ceremony -- 8. The Components of Yolngu Art -- 9. Changing with the Times: Categories of Art and the Composition of Paintings -- 10. Manggalili Iconography -- 11. Yingapungapu -- 12. Nyapililngu's Blood -- 13. Conclusion: Yolngu Art and the Creativity of the Inside -- Note on Orthography -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Murngin (Australian people) Rites and ceremonies, Bark painting, Yolngu, Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian, Symbolism in art Australia, Yolngu (Australian people) Kinship, Yolngu (Australian people) Social life and customs |
| Summary |
Yolngu art as a communication system encoding meaning as form; relation of art to the systems of clan organisation and restricted (secret) knowledge; contact history and social contexts of art production; iconography of clan paintings; response to the art market; social organisation rights to land and law; marriage and kinship; rights to paintings; knowledge system - structure, inclusiveness, power, secrecy; role of paintings in ceremonies - burial rituals; range of meanings associated with paintings - examples used in ceremonies associated with the Wawilak Sisters and ancestral shark images; graphic components of painting - figurative and geometric, clan designs; chronological change - the Donald Thomson Collection, past and contemporary categories of painting, commercial art; iconographic analysis of Manggalili clan paintings; relation of events in painting to Yolngu cosmology - creative powers , life and death, male and female dualities |
| Analysis |
Visual arts By Australian aborigines |
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Visual arts By Australian aborigines |
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Visual arts By Australian aborigines |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-319) and index |
| Notes |
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Art
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Art and society -- Australia.
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Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
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Bark painting -- Australia.
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Bark painting, Yolngu.
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Yolngu (Australian people) -- Kinship.
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Yolngu (Australian people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Yolngu (Australian people) -- Social life and customs.
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Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
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Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian.
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Symbolisim in art -- Australia
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Symbolism in art -- Australia.
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Symbolism in art.
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| LC no. |
91015544 |
| ISBN |
0226538656 (alk. paper) |
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0226538664 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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