Ancestral Connections
Subtitle: Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780226538655
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; General; Popular Culture - General; Art / Popular Culture; Manners And Customs; Primitive Art; Architecture; Bark painting, Yolngu; Murngin (Australian people); Philosophy, Aboriginal Austral; Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian; Rites and ceremonies; Symbolism in art; Sociology
First sentence: In a temporary shade made of cloth and canvas covering a framework of sticks, two men sit painting the lid of a coffin.