Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons
ISBN: 9780816685462
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Walbiri (Australian people) -- Communication; Communication; Knowledge Sociology of;

This is the account of the authorOCys period of residence and work with the Walpiri Aborigines of western Central Australia, where he studied the impact of television on these remote communities. Sharp, exact, and unrelentingly honest, this volume records with an extraordinary combination of distance and immersion the intervention of technology into a remote Aboriginal community and that communityOCOs forays into broadcasting."

Professor Marcia Langton is a professor at Melbourne University and an Indigenous rights activist in Australia. She has received many accolades, including an Order of Australia. She is the author of several books. Her 2018 book, Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia, won the 2019 Indie Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction.

(Bowker Author Biography)


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