The Dispersed Local and the Culture of Protocols examines the issues of value and rights associated with objects housed in museum collections. Arguing that the two are closely related, Morphy focuses
30 years ago Australian Aboriginal art was little more than a footnote to world art. Today, it is considered to be an important contemporary art movement, often promoted as being connected to a deep c
A manifestation of the creative forces of Dreamtime, Australian Aborigines have been making art for thousands of yearsSurveys the great variety of Aboriginal art - paintings, sculptures, weapons and u
Ancestral Connections unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu--an Aboriginal people of Northeast Arnhem Land--an
This book is one of a series of volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the pa
This pathbreaking book brings together essays by leading anthropologists that cover an entire range of visual representation, from Balinese television to computer software manuals. Contributors discus
The contributors to this volume move through time and space--from prehistoric Europe to the Enlightenment, and from industrial Victorian England to Aboriginal Australia--to compare the ways in which t
This book examines the concept of adaptation in four major fields in the human sciences. Genetic aspects are first considered through an examination of the human genes which have so far been identifie
Mostly anthropologists but also advocates for and representatives of aboriginal Australians discuss scholarly revaluations of aboriginal religions, religious business, sacred places, art and religion,
Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned introduction (Books I and II) of 176 pages and privately printed in 1909, can be seen as some of his
