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- Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons
- Book
- 1994
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
- Series: Theory Out Of Bounds
summary
Bad Aboriginal Art is the extraordinary account of Eric Michaels’ period of residence and work with the Warlpiri Aborigines of western Central Australia, where he studied the impact of television on remote Aboriginal communities.
Sharp, exact, and unrelentingly honest, Michaels records with an extraordinary combination of distance and immersion the intervention of technology into a remote Aboriginal community and that community’s forays into the technology of broadcasting. Michaels’s analyses in Bad Aboriginal Art will disrupt and redirect current debates surrounding the theory and practice of anthropology, ethnography, film and video making, communications policy, and media studies - no less than his work has already disrupted and redirected the cultural technologies of both the Warlpiri and Australian technocrats.
Sharp, exact, and unrelentingly honest, Michaels records with an extraordinary combination of distance and immersion the intervention of technology into a remote Aboriginal community and that community’s forays into the technology of broadcasting. Michaels’s analyses in Bad Aboriginal Art will disrupt and redirect current debates surrounding the theory and practice of anthropology, ethnography, film and video making, communications policy, and media studies - no less than his work has already disrupted and redirected the cultural technologies of both the Warlpiri and Australian technocrats.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. xxvii-xxxvi
- A Note to the Reader
- pp. xxxvii-xliv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xlv-xlix
- VII: If "All Anthropologists Are Liars ..."
- pp. 127-142
- VIII: Bad Aboriginal Art
- pp. 143-164
- IX: Para-Ethnography
- pp. 165-176
- Postscript: My Essay on Postmodernism
- pp. 177-182
- Works Cited
- pp. 193-196
- A Bibliography of Eric Michaels
- pp. 197-198
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816685462
Related ISBN(s)
9780816623419
MARC Record
OCLC
191818142
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No