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The Strehlow Archive is one of Australia's most important collections of film, sound, archival records and museum objects relating to the ceremonial life of Aboriginal people. The aim of this book is to provide a significant study of the relationship of archives to contemporary forms of digital mediation. The volume introduces a specific archive, the Strehlow Collection, and tracks the ways in which its materials and research dissemination practices are influenced by media forms we now identify with the emergence of digital technology.
Sommario
1. Introduction: Archaeologies of the digital archive and the persistence of cultural memory
2. The Strehlow Collection: A Dangerous Archive
3. The Remote Aboriginal Community of Hermannsburg/Ntaria
4. Mr. Strehlow's Films: Digitising the Dreaming
5. Image archives as totemic geomedia
6. Databases and the book: T.G.H. Strehlow’s Journey to Horseshoe Bend
7. Cantata Journey: Songs and Central Australia
8. Cultural Re-Integration, Participatory Archives and Aboriginal Knowing
9. Conclusion: Genealogies of memory, an ethos of storytelling?
Info autore
Dr Hart Cohen is¿Professor in Media Arts in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and a member of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. He is currently the University's Discipline Leader for Communication and Media. Dr Cohen has published widely in the field of visual anthropology, communications, film and media studies and directed three Australian Research Council Projects related to the Strehlow Collection. Three films have been made in relation to these projects: Mr. Strehlow's Films (SBSi 2001) and Cantata Journey (ABC TV 2006) Ntaria Heroes (2016). Dr Cohen is co-author of the award-winning book, Screen Media Arts: An Introduction to Concepts and Practices (Oxford University Press 2009) and editor of the Global Media Journal (Australian Edition (2007- present) (https://www.hca.westernsydney.edu.au/gmjau/). His most recent book is The Strehlow Archive: Explorations in Old and New Media (Routledge 2018).
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The Strehlow Archive is one of Australia's most important collections of film, sound, archival records and museum objects relating to the ceremonial life of Aboriginal people. The aim of this book is to provide a significant study of the relationship of archives to contemporary forms of digital mediation. The volume introduces a specific archive
