{"product_id":"aboriginal-rock-art-and-the-telling-of-history-hardback-9781009523318","title":"Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History (Hardback) 9781009523318","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOffers new insights into the medium of rock art by bringing together history, archaeology, and Indigenous artistic practices.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaura Rademaker (Author), Sally K. May (Author), Gabriel Maralngurra (Author), Joakim Goldhahn (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009523318, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e204 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe rock art of Australia is among the oldest, most complex, and most fascinating manifestations of human creativity and imagination in the world. Aboriginal people used art to record their experiences, ceremonies, and knowledge by embedding their understanding of the world in the landscape over many generations. Indeed, rock art serves as archives and libraries for Australia's Indigenous people. It is, in effect, its repository of memory. This volume explores Indigenous perspectives on rock art. It challenges the limits and assumptions of traditional, academic ways of understanding and knowing the past by showing how history has literally been painted 'on the rocks'. Each chapter features a biography of an artist or family of artists, together with an artwork created by contemporary artist Gabriel Maralngurra. By bringing together history, archaeology, and Indigenous artistic practice, the book offers new insights into the medium of rock art and demonstrates the limits of academic methods and approaches.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Note on the text\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Rock beats paper: 'prehistory', rock art and archives\u003cbr\u003e 2. Change and tradition in West Arnhem land rock art\u003cbr\u003e 3. The counter-archive of First Nations biography\u003cbr\u003e 4. Reading the writing on the wall: rock art and the written word\u003cbr\u003e 5. Touchstones for memory, bedrocks for history\u003cbr\u003e 6. Timelessness and permanence: rock art and time\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Archaeology by period \/ region [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Archaeology by period \/ region\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Archaeology%20by%20period%20\/%20region%20%5BHDD%5D%22\"\u003eHDD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52475008418072,"sku":"9781009523318","price":71.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009523318i.jpg?v=1785803451","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/aboriginal-rock-art-and-the-telling-of-history-hardback-9781009523318","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}