Ancestral connections : art and an aboriginal system of knowledge / Howard Morphy
- Bib ID:
- 1765466
- Format:
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- Author:
- Morphy, Howard
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991
- xvii, 329 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0226538656
- 0226538664
- Summary:
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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.
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- 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.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-319) and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
- Subject:
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- 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
- Stories and motifs - Wawalag Sisters
- Stories and motifs - Sharks
- Manggalili people (N137) (NT SD53-03)
- Art - Production - Materials / techniques
- Stories and motifs - Cultural heroes
- Art - Painting - Bark
- Settlement and contacts - 20th Century
- Settlement and contacts
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Art - Sand and ground design
- Yolngu people (NT SD53)
- W©Þgilak / Wawilak people (N106) (NT SD53-07)
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Art - Artists
- Communications - Nonverbal
- Stories and motifs - Insects
- Sites - Dreaming tracks
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Art - Body art
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- South Australia - West (SA SH53, SI53)
- Visual arts By Australian aborigines
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- 1991
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