400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Contents
1. Glimpses of Balgo -- 2. Unravelling Layers of Being and Thought -- 3. Touching the Ground: Public Sand Drawing -- 4. Contemporary Painting: Practice and History 1979-2001 -- 5. Touching and the Structures of Ceremony -- 6. Touching the Ancestors: the Nakarra Nakarra Dreaming Track -- 7. Dialogue and Transformation: Paintings of the Nakarra Nakarra Dreaming Track -- 8. Becoming the Dreaming -- App. Nakarra Nakarra Song Cycle
Summary
Explores how Balgo women conceive of and produce images and how this embodies their religious beliefs and ceremonial activities in relation to country [from introduction]
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages 382-392
Notes
Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library