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'This is a remarkable book. Perhaps for the first time, a major body of rock art is documented in the words of the people in whose tradition it was created. Ngarjno, Ungudman , Banggal and Nyawarra, senior elders (munnumburra) of the Ngarinyin people of northwestern Kimberley of Western Australia, worked with filmmaker Jeff Doring who took the sumptuous photographs, associated the edited munnumburra songs and narratives with the images and provides a small number of linking observations which place the words and pictures into a wider context. Banggal is better known to rock-art students and others by another name, that is not used here, for his involvement in the discussions about the repainting of rock art (Ward 1997). (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 2 2001 Z942854 2001 periodical issue

    'The majority of the articles in this issue of the journal are given over to the exploration of the politics, ethics and usefulness of anthropology to Indigenous affairs policy. As the authors of these articles make obvious, these topics cannot be divorced from larger questions about the location of intellectual activity in state systems and formations of capital. Additionally, the authors clearly regard it as appropriate that anthropological endeavours that are policy oriented should also be subject to probing analysis. In this the authors reflect one of the distinctive tensions of contemporary intellectual practice: that the production of knowledge, ideally a process abstracted from lived reality, is itself enmeshed in the messy contours of power, ideology and politics. On this challenging and important terrain, the authors reveal a range of possibilities and uncertainties for anthropology and public policy. Kingsley Palmer's introduction to these articles— authored by himself, Jon Altman, Julie Finlayson and Geoff Gray—explains their genesis and raises a number of critical questions that resonate throughout them all.'  (Editorial introduction)

    2001
    pg. 68-69
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