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Collecting Cultures investigates colonial museum collecting practices in indigenous communities based upon the case of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land.

Aboriginal Australians --- Arnhem Land Expedition --- Arnhem Land (N.T.) --- Discovery and exploration. --- Arnhem Land (NT). --- Arnhem Land (NT)

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OCE Oceania --- Arnhem Land --- Australia --- Northern Territory --- Oceania --- ecology --- expeditions

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"This publication brings together existing research as well as new data to show how Arnhem Land bark painting was critical in the making of Indigenous Australian contemporary art and the self-determination agendas of Indigenous Australians. It identifies how, when and what the shifts in the reception of the art were, especially as they occurred within institutional exhibition displays. Despite key studies already being published on the reception of Aboriginal art in this area, the overall process is not well known or always considered, while the focus has tended to be placed on Western Desert acrylic paintings. This text, however represents a refocus, and addresses this more fully by integrating Arnhem Land bark painting into the contemporary history of Aboriginal art. The trajectory moves from its understanding as a form of ethnographic art, to seeing it as conceptual art and appreciating it for its cultural agency and contemporaneity."--Provided by publisher.

Art, Aboriginal Australian --- Bark painting --- Painting, Aboriginal Australian --- Arnhem Land (N.T.)

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The vast shape-shifting continent of Australia enables us to take a long view of history. We consider ways to cross the great divide between the deep past and the present. Australia's human past is not a short past, so we need to enlarge the scale and scope of history beyond 1788. In ways not so distant, these deeper times happened in the same places where we walk today. Yet, they were not the same places, having different surfaces, ecologies and peoples. Contributors to this volume show how the earth and its past peoples can wake us up to a sense of place as history - as a site of both change and continuity. This book ignites the possibilities of what the spaces and expanses of history might be. Its authors reflect upon the need for appropriate, feasible timescales for history, pointing out some of the obstacles encountered in earlier efforts to slice human time into thematic categories. Time and history are considered from the perspective of physics, archaeology, literature, western and Indigenous philosophy. Ultimately, this collection argues for imaginative new approaches to collaborative histories of deep time that are better suited to the challenges of the Anthropocene. Contributors to this volume, including many leading figures in their respective disciplines, consider history's temporality, and ask how history might expand to accommodate a chronology of deep time. Long histories that incorporate humanities, science and Indigenous knowledge may produce deeper meanings of the worlds in which we live.

Aboriginal Australians --- Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania --- History & Archaeology --- History --- Arnhem Land (N.T.) --- Australia --- History. --- australia --- indigenous knowledge --- history --- timescales --- Dreamtime --- History - Theory and criticism.

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Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia's Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually most impressive regional assemblages anywhere in the world. To better understand this multi-dimensional cultural record, The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia focuses on the nature and antiquity of the region's rock art as revealed by archaeological surveys and excavations, and the application of novel analytical methods. This volume also presents new findings by which to rethink how Aboriginal peoples have socially engaged in and with places across western Arnhem Land, from the north to the south, from the plains to the spectacular rocky landscapes of the plateau. The dynamic nature of Arnhem Land rock art is explored and articulated in innovative ways that shed new light on the region's deep time Aboriginal history.

Archaeology. --- Art, Aboriginal Australian. --- Historic sites. --- Art, Australian aboriginal --- Aboriginal Australian art --- Archeology --- Heritage places, Historic --- Heritage sites, Historic --- Historic heritage places --- Historic heritage sites --- Historic places --- Historical sites --- Places, Historic --- Sites, Historic --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Archaeology --- Historic buildings --- Monuments --- World Heritage areas --- Arnhem Land (N.T.) --- Antiquities. --- rock art --- arnhem land --- australia --- northern territory --- Anthropomorphism --- Beeswax --- Before Present --- Radiocarbon dating --- Stratum --- Terra Australis --- Art - Rock art. --- Dating and chronology. --- Art - Rock art - Dating and attribution. --- Painting, Aboriginal Australian --- Historic sites --- Art - Subjects - Dynamic figures. --- Gunbalanya / Oenpelli (West Arnhem Land NT SD53-01)