Available March 2007
Clothbound
| 6 x 9” | 200 pp. | 24 color plates
60 b/w figures | ISBN 1-931707-95-2
$39.95t
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Aboriginal
Paintings
of the Wolfe Creek Crater
Track
of the Rainbow Serpent
Peggy
Reeves Sanday
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. She provides a compelling story of discovery, both that
of her geologist father in 1947 and her own decades later.
In a vibrant example of public interest anthropology, an ethnography
that evolves from dialogue and collaboration and honors the
Aboriginal artists with whom she worked, Sanday enlightens,
elucidates, and communicates the aesthetic sensibility of a
people on their own terms. Through powerful Aboriginal art,
readers become part of an unforgettable cultural experience.
MEET
THE AUTHOR
Peggy
Reeves Sanday is Professor of Anthropology at the University
of Pennsylvania.
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