We don't do dots : Aboriginal art and culture in Wilcannia, New South Wales / Lorraine Gibson
- Bib ID:
- 6225719
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gibson, Lorraine
- Description:
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- Canon Pyon : Sean Kingston Pub., c2013
- viii, 294 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781907774096
- 1907774092
- Summary:
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"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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Art, Aboriginal Australian -- New South Wales
- Art - Artists
- Culture
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Paakantyi / Paakantji / Barkindji people (D12) (NSW SI54-03)
- Art
- Enterprises - Arts and crafts
- Race relations
- Social identity - Aboriginality
- Race relations - Racism
- Socioeconomic conditions
- Art - Painting
- Mutawintji / Mootwingee / Mutanie (NW NSW SH54-15)
- Wilcannia (NW NSW SH54-16)
- Australian
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2012
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