Desert Dreamers - Couverture souple

Glowczewski, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1937561968 ISBN 13 : 9781937561963

Editeur : Univocal Publishing LLC, 2016

Synopsis

In the heart of Australia, on the cracked red earth, among wild vegetation, weathered bush, and dried-up creeks, hundreds of invisible pathways exist that become entangled on the earth's surface, underground, and in the sky, clouds, and wind. The Aboriginal people call them Jukurrpa: "the Dreamings." This web is the Warlpiri land. Practicing the Dreaming, by ritual art, is for the Warlpiri a way to reactivate their ancestral traditions to connect with the cosmos and respond to current social and political issues.

In 1979, anthropologist Barbara Glowczewski embarked on a journey to study the Warlpiri in the Australian outback. Struggling at once to maintain their traditions and cultural heritage as well as adapting to the continuing secularization and techno-progress of their European Australian counterparts, she takes us into the landscape, artistic rituals, and turmoil of the Warlpiri over three decades. Becoming accepted among Aboriginal families as a translator, and at the same time a negotiator of two vastly different visions of the earth, contemporary Western culture and the ancient indigenous dreaming culture, Glowczewski created a singular document of ethnological fieldwork and of self-transformation and discovery.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Glowczewski is a professorial researcher at the French Scientific Research Center, CNRS, member of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France. She has dedicated her work to advocating for Australian Aboriginal creativity through a variety of artistic, cinematic, and narrative exploration.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Univocal Publishing LLC
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1937561968
• ISBN 13: 9781937561963
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible