Bad Aboriginal Art : Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons.
This is the account of the authors period of residence and work with the Walpiri Aborigines of western Central Australia, where he studied the impact of television on these remote communities. Sharp, exact, and unrelentingly honest, this volume records with an extraordinary combination of distance a...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1994.
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| Series: | Theory out of bounds.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword Dick Hebdige; Introduction Marcia Langton; A Note to the Reader Michael Leigh; Acknowledgments Paul Foss; I: A Primer of Restrictions on Picture-Taking in Traditional Areas of Aboriginal Australia; II: Aboriginal Content: Who's Got It
- Who Needs It?; III: Western Desert Sandpainting and Postmodernism; IV: Hundreds Shot at Aboriginal Community: ABC Makes TV Documentary at Yuendumu; V: Hollywood Iconography: A Warlpiri Reading; VI: For a Cultural Future: Francis Jupurrurla Makes TV at Yuendumu; VII: If "All Anthropologists Are Liars ... "; VIII: Bad Aboriginal Art.