Challenging the limits and assumptions of traditional ways of understanding the past, this volume explores Indigenous perspectives on rock art. By bringing together history, archaeology, and Indigenous artistic practice, the book offers new insights into the medium of rock art and demonstrates the limits of academic methods and approaches.
Challenging the limits and assumptions of traditional ways of understanding the past, this volume explores Indigenous perspectives on rock art. By bringing together history, archaeology, and Indigenous artistic practice, the book offers new insights into the medium of rock art and demonstrates the limits of academic methods and approaches.
Laura Rademaker is Australian Research Council DECRA Research Fellow at the Australian National University. A historian of Indigenous Australia, she is a winner of the Australian Historical Association's Hancock Prize and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia's Bourke Award for her pioneering interdisciplinary and community-based historical methods.
Inhaltsangabe
List of figures Foreword Acknowledgements Note on the text List of abbreviations 1. Rock beats paper: 'prehistory', rock art and archives 2. Change and tradition in West Arnhem land rock art 3. The counter-archive of First Nations biography 4. Reading the writing on the wall: rock art and the written word 5. Touchstones for memory, bedrocks for history 6. Timelessness and permanence: rock art and time Conclusions Afterword Glossary Bibliography Index.
List of figures Foreword Acknowledgements Note on the text List of abbreviations 1. Rock beats paper: 'prehistory', rock art and archives 2. Change and tradition in West Arnhem land rock art 3. The counter-archive of First Nations biography 4. Reading the writing on the wall: rock art and the written word 5. Touchstones for memory, bedrocks for history 6. Timelessness and permanence: rock art and time Conclusions Afterword Glossary Bibliography Index.
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