Archival Returns
Central Australia and Beyond
$38.25
- Paperback
372 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2020
Summary
Place-based cultural knowledge of ceremonies, songs,stories, language, kinship and ecology binds Australian Indigenous societiestogether. Over the last 100 years or so, records of this knowledge in manydifferent formats audiocassettes, photographs, films, written texts, maps,and digital recordings have been accumulating at an ever-increasing rate. Yetthis extensive documentary heritage is dispersed. In many cases, the Indigenouspeople who participated in the creation of the records, or…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781743326725 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1743326726 |
| Author: | Linda Barwick, Jennifer Green, Petronella Vaarzon-Morel |
| Publisher: | Sydney University Press |
| Imprint: | Sydney University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 372 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 658g |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 178mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Indigenous Music of Australia |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“reveals layers of complexity in the deceptively simple process of repatriation or archival return … important for folklorists, ethnomusicologists, archivists, and anthropologists working with Aboriginal communities and cultural-heritage materials, but it warrants attention from a broader audience … highlights tangible and inspiring efforts to decolonize the work of cultural-heritage institutions.”
– David Lewis * Journal of Folklore Research Reviews *About The Author
Linda Barwick
Linda Barwick is a musicologist and professor at the University of Sydney’s Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Jennifer Green is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne. She has worked for over four decades with Indigenous people in Central Australia documenting languages, cultural history, art, social organisation and connections to country.
Petronella Vaarzon-Morel is an anthropologist with long-term experience working with Warlpiri and other Indigenous peoples in Central Australia. She is an honorary research associate at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the University of Sydney.
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