description: This is the account of the author‘s 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 community’s forays into broadcasting."His tone is well-versed, casual, even intimate, and although he refuted claims that he had 'gone native,' his writing reflects a great sense of connection with and loyalty to the Aboriginal culture. As a researcher, Michaels had great strength of character, determination, and belief in his own work. The essays in Bad Aboriginal Art provided a fascinating account of a changing society by a talented, dedicated researcher whose premature death has left a void, and a legacy, in contemporary Aboriginal ethnography." — Afterimage
language: English
title: Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons
titlecomplete: Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Allen & Unwin