Aboriginal Rock Art And The Telling Of History

Aboriginal Rock Art And The Telling Of History

“This volume explores Indigenous perspectives on rock art. It challenges the limits and assumptions of traditional, academic ways of understanding and knowing the past by showing how history has literally been painted ‘on the rocks’. Each chapter features a biography of an artist or family of artists, together with an artwork created by contemporary artist Gabriel Maralngurra. 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.”

Researcher
Laura Rademaker Sally K. May Gabriel Maralngurra Joakim Goldhahn
City
Northern Territory
Country
Australia
Keywords
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Publications

Rademaker, Laura, Sally K. May, Gabriel Maralngurra, and Joakim Goldhahn. 2024. Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009523356

Website
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/aboriginal-rock-art-and-the-telling-of-history/E5F95ADA842C8C29691D665938084A34