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The Colours Of Things Memory Materiality And An Anthropology Of The Senses In North Western South Australia Diane Jane Barbara Young

Name: The Colours Of Things Memory Materiality And An Anthropology Of The Senses In North Western South Australia Diane Jane Barbara Young
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The Colours Of Things Memory Materiality And An Anthropology Of The Senses In North Western South Australia Diane Jane Barbara Young instant download after payment.

Publisher: University College London

File Extension: PDF

File size: 31.32 MB

Pages: 318

Author: Diane Jane Barbara Young

Language: English

Year: 2001

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The Colours Of Things Memory Materiality And An Anthropology Of The Senses In North Western South Australia Diane Jane Barbara Young by Diane Jane Barbara Young instant download after payment.

Examines colour perception and the importance of colour in the material and social relations of the Yankunyjatjara and Pitjantjara, central Australia; theory and psychology of colour perception; background to colour research in Australian ethnographic context - rainbow serpent as example; background history of Ernabella; relation of colour to other senses; sensation, cognition and language; colour and landscape - language (place names, identity and the Dreaming); conception of time (ancestral, daily, seasonal), place (tracks, ground, fire, rocks, water, ghosts and spirits [snakes]), body and self (sickness, death, skin - significance of red and Red Ochre Men, hair - dying); bush foods - classifications of plant (figs, quandong, bush onion, bush tomato) and animal foods (kangaroo, witchetty grubs, perentie lizard / goanna, emu, bush turkey, wombat); associations with plants - colour (wild tobacco / pituri, kalpari, seeds - woollybutt, wakati), sweetness (aphid scale, thrytomene flowers, honey ants); cars and cloths as transformative agents; cars (Toyota) - importance, acquisition, colour, abandonment and disposal, social and private uses, travel tracking and navigation, mechanics; cloths and the body - social roles, styles, attitudes to nakedness, gender distinctions, colour combinations; clothing, social events and roles - mourning, rituals, sport, country, acquisition and discard, love magic; art and marking - design, colour, touch; history and development of Ernabella art movement.