Aboriginal Art and the Telling of History

by Gabriel Maralngurra, Laura Rademaker, Sally K. May

The 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009523317
• ISBN13: 9781009523318
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages