Bad Aboriginal Art : Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons

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This is the account of the authors period of residence and work with the Walpiri Aborigines of western Central Australia, where he studied the impact of television on these remote communities. Sharp, exact, and unrelentingly honest, this volume records with an extraordinary combination of distance a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michaels, Eric
Other Authors: Hebdige, Dick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Communication.
sociology of knowledge.
Sociologie de la connaissance.
Walbiri (Peuple d'Australie) > Communication.
Warlpiri (Australian people) > Communication.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This is the account of the authors period of residence and work with the Walpiri Aborigines of western Central Australia, where he studied the impact of television on these remote communities. Sharp, exact, and unrelentingly honest, this volume records with an extraordinary combination of distance and immersion the intervention of technology into a remote Aboriginal community and that communitys forays into broadcasting.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780816685462

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