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Author Gibson, Lorraine Douglas, author

Title We don't do dots : Aboriginal art and culture in Wilcannia, New South Wales / Lorraine Gibson
Published Canon Pyon : Sean Kingston Pub., [2013]
Canon Pyon, [England] : Sean Kingston Publishing, 2013
©2013

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 W'PONDS  709.94 Gib/Wdd  AVAILABLE
Description viii, 294 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
regular print
Contents Introduction: just any day in Wilcannia -- 1. Plenty of Aborigines, but no culture -- 2. Art and culture: the two main things, right? -- 3. Badger Bates: Granny Moysey's baby -- 4. Stakeholders and their dispositions: creating and selling 'art' and 'artists' -- 5. Art as an agent of social relations -- 6. Big Murray Butcher: 'We still doin' it'
Summary "What does it mean when whites say that certain Australian Aboriginal people have "no culture" but accept that they have art? Why are notions and images of Aboriginal art and culture still dominated by those from the centre and north of the Australian continent, even though most Aborigines reside in the south-east? This book explores these questions, why they matter, and to whom they matter. It draws on extensive fieldwork with Barkindji Aboriginal people in the small country town of Wilcannia, New South Wales. The richly textured ethnographic analysis examines how notions of Aboriginal art and Aboriginal culture are wielded as weapons of power in everyday racism in Australia. In so doing, it demonstrates how Aboriginal people deploy ideas of art, artists and culture to assert individual and group identity, and to subvert dominant culture ideas and ideals which operate as tools of oppression, distancing and harm." -- book cover
Analysis Australian
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-288) and index
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Wilcannia (N.S.W.) -- Ethnic identity.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Wilcannia -- Ethnic identity
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Wilcannia (N.S.W.)
Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Wilcannia (N.S.W.)
SUBJECT Wilcannia (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013047319 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
Wilcannia (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013047319 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
ISBN 1907774092
9781907774096
Other Titles Aboriginal art and culture in Wilcannia, New South Wales