Aboriginal Paintings of the Wolfe Creek Crater Track of the Rainbow - Serpen

Informationen zum Autor Peggy Sanday is Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext Told in Aboriginal art and narrative, the Dreamtime story of the creation and meaning of the Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater in Australia's Western Desert appears here for the first time. Deftly and sensitively Sanday introduces the meaning of the cosmology of the homeland of the Walmajarri and Djaru Aboriginal people. Zusammenfassung Told in Aboriginal art and narrative! the Dreamtime story of the creation and meaning of the Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater in Australia's Western Desert appears here for the first time. Deftly and sensitively Sanday introduces the meaning of the cosmology of the homeland of the Walmajarri and Djaru Aboriginal people. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction: Track of the Rainbow Serpent Halls Creek and Crater Culture History The Sugar Leaf Dreaming: Stan Brumby's Painting The Star and the Serpent: Daisy Kungah's Painting The Dingo, the Rainbow Serpent, and the Old Man Piercing and Creation in the Crater Dreamtime The Cosmic and Earthly Serpents: Milner Boxer's Paintings Two Families Go to Red Rock and Kandimalal Site Paths in Crater Country Epilogue References Index

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• Autori: Peggy Reeves Sanday, Sanday Peggy Reeves
• Editore: University of pennsylvania pr
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 04.06.2007
• EAN: 9781931707954
• ISBN: 978-1-931707-95-4
• Pagine: 168
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte; Australia, ART / History / General, Anthropology, ART / Australian & Oceanian, Asian and Pacific Studies