Title The Oxford companion to aboriginal art and culture / general editors, Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale ; cultural editor, Robyne Bancroft ; editorial and research assistants, Tsari Anderson, Victoria Haskins, Bernadette Hince, Katherine Russell, Lani Russell, Lia Szokalski, Helen Skeat, Christine Watson, and Christine Winter

Published Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 2000 Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 ©2000

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Description xxvi, 758 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 26 cm regular print Contents Part 1. Foundations of being: 1. Religion -- 2. Ritual and sacred sites -- 3. Kinship and gender -- Colonial and psot-colonial scenes: 4. Colonial continuities and discontinuities -- 5. Rock art revisited -- 6. Arnhem Land -- 7. Between islands -- 8. Queensland -- 9. Central Australia -- 10. The Kimberley -- 11. The southern states -- Renegotiating tradition: 12. Urban Aboriginal art -- 13. Film and communications -- 14. Literature -- 15. Music -- 16. Performance -- 17. Fibre-work and textiles -- 18. Cultural meeting places -- 19. Living spaces -- The public face of aboriginality: 20. Aboriginalities -- 21. Reception and recognition of Aboriginal art -- 22. Cross-cultural exchange -- 23. The way ahead -- Part 2. Alphabetical entries -- Appendix. Regional maps Summary The most comprehensive and important work of its kind. The book covers everything from documented archaeological traditions and art styles, through to the development of the remarkably diverse contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art practices that have attracted so much attention in recent years Analysis Aboriginal australians Art Culture Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Dictionaries. Aboriginal Australians -- Encyclopedias. Aboriginal Australians -- Art. Aboriginal Australians -- Arts Aboriginal Australians -- Civilization. Aboriginal Australians -- Material culture -- Encyclopedias. Aboriginal Australians -- Material culture. Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- Encyclopedias. Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs. Aboriginal Australians. Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Encyclopedias. Art, Aboriginal Australian. Art, Australian -- Aboriginal artists -- Biography Arts, Aboriginal Australian -- Encyclopedias. Arts, Aboriginal Australian. Ethnic arts -- Australia -- Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) Ethnic arts -- Australia -- Torres Strait Islands -- Encyclopedias Ethnic arts -- Australia -- Torres Strait Islands Torres Strait Islanders -- Encyclopedias. Torres Strait Islanders. Genre/Form Art. Dictionaries. Encyclopedias. Author Bancroft, Robyne, editor Kleinert, Sylvia, editor Neale, Margo, editor LC no. 2001269497 ISBN 0195506499 9780195506495

Other Titles Aboriginal art and culture

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