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Pintupi country, Pintupi self : sentiment, place, and politics among western desert aborigines.
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ISBN: 0520074114 9780520074118 Year: 1991 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.) : University of California press,

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Painting culture : the making of an aboriginal high art
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ISBN: 9780822329497 0822329492 0822329328 9786612920424 1282920421 0822384167 Year: 2002 Publisher: Durham, N.C. Duke University Press

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This text tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic dot paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors


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The empire of things : regimes of value and material culture
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ISBN: 0852559275 Year: 2001 Publisher: London : Currey,

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Question de regard : les expositions d'art aborigène australien en France
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German ethnography in Australia
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ISBN: 1760461326 1760461318 9781760461324 9781760461317 Year: 2017 Publisher: Acton, A.C.T. ANU Press

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The contribution of German ethnography to Australian anthropological scholarship on Aboriginal societies and cultures has been limited, primarily because few people working in the field read German. But it has also been neglected because its humanistic concerns with language, religion and mythology contrasted with the mainstream British social anthropological tradition that prevailed in Australia until the late 1960s. The advent of native title claims, which require drawing on the earliest ethnography for any area, together with an increase in research on rock art of the Kimberley region, has stimulated interest in this German ethnography, as have some recent book translations. Even so, several major bodies of ethnography, such as the 13 volumes on the cultures of northeastern South Australia and the seven volumes on the Aranda of the Alice Springs region, remain inaccessible, along with many ethnographically rich articles and reports in mission archives. In 18 chapters, this book introduces and reviews the significance of this neglected work, much of it by missionaries who first wrote on Australian Aboriginal cultures in the 1840s. Almost all of these German speakers, in particular the missionaries, learnt an Aboriginal language in order to be able to document religious beliefs, mythology and songs as a first step to conversion. As a result, they produced an enormously valuable body of work that will greatly enrich regional ethnographies.


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Materializing difference : consumer culture, politics, and ethnicity among Romanian Roma
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ISBN: 1487511337 1487511329 Year: 2019 Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press,

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"How do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency? What role does material culture--such as prestige consumption as well as commodity aesthetics, biographies, and ownership histories--play in the production of social and political identities, differences, and hierarchies? How do (informal) consumer subcultures of collectors organize and manage themselves? Drawing on theories from anthropology and sociology, specifically material culture, consumption, museum, ethnicity, and post-socialist studies, Materializing Difference addresses these questions via analysis of the practices and ideologies connected to Gabor Roma beakers and roofed tankards made of antique silver. The consumer subculture organized around these objects--defined as ethnicized and gendered prestige goods by the Gabor Roma living in Romania--is a contemporary, second-hand culture based on patina-oriented consumption. Materializing Difference reveals the inner dynamics of the complex relationships and interactions between objects (silver beakers and roofed tankards) and subjects (Romanian Roma) and investigates how these relationships and interactions contribute to the construction, materialization, and reformulation of social, economic, and political identities, boundaries, and differences. It also discusses how, after 1989, the political transformation in Romania led to the emergence of a new, post-socialist consumer sensitivity among the Gabor Roma, and how this sensitivity reshaped the pre-regime-change patterns, meanings, and value preferences of prestige consumption."--

The traffic in culture : refiguring art and anthropology.
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ISBN: 0520088468 0520088476 Year: 1995 Publisher: Los Angeles University of California press

The traffic in Culture; Refuging art and anthropology
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ISBN: 9780520088474 Year: 1995 Publisher: London : University of California press,

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Aux sources de la peinture aborigène : Australie-Tjukurrtjanu
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ISBN: 2757205498 9782757205495 Year: 2012 Publisher: Paris: Musée du quai Branly,

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Cette exposition unique en son genre part à la recherche des origines d'un mouvement artistique majeur né à Papunya en 1971-72, mouvement que l'on pourrait qualifier d'équivalent australien du cubisme européen ou de l'expressionnisme abstrait américain. Ici, dans un lieu des plus improbables - un territoire gouvernemental situé dans les grands déserts d'Australie centrale - un groupe d'initiés aborigènes commença à transposer les peintures rituelles éphémères sur des tableaux. Arrivé à Papunya en 1971, Geoffrey Bardon, jeune professeur de dessin, eut l'idée de faire venir à l'école des Anciens, pour renouer le lien des jeunes générations avec leur propre culture. Il les encouragea à peindre sur les murs de l'école. Ce que Geoffrey Bardon avait initié avec le mur de l'école n'était que le germe du mouvement. Avec ces artistes, il fonda une première coopérative et établit des relations avec des galeries à Alice Springs. Ni repris, ni adapté d'une quelconque autre tradition artistique, l'Art du désert Occidental relève du domaine de l'art contemporain. Il tire sa force du choc de l'ancien devenu nouveau. Peintes sur des morceaux de panneaux recyclés, les premières peintures frappent par leur intensité brute, la plénitude du geste et leur énergie visuelle. Se confrontant à de nouveaux matériaux - crayons, pinceaux, peintures émaillées et acryliques - les artistes transposèrent leurs dessins archétypaux sur les rectangles et carrés à bords irréguliers de la toile. Ces premiers tableaux, peu nombreux, rendirent palpable et permanent un art éphémère autrefois lié aux sites cérémoniels. Les tableaux sont de ce fait investis d'un pouvoir rituel et solennel. Entre 160 et 200 toiles d'une vingtaine d'artistes fondateurs du mouvement seront présentées dans l'exposition en regard d'une centaine d'objets où apparaissent des motifs traditionnels aborigènes.

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Arts premiers --- Peinture --- Australie

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