Recursive and Iterative Processes in Australian Rock Art: An Anthropological Perspective

A Companion to Rock Art

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 294-305

  Morphy, Howard ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archaeological, sequencing and retouching evidence, insights into the cultural; Australian rock art, recursive and iterative, an anthropological perspective; Earlier anthropologists archaeologists, lesser attention to oral tradition and rock art; Holistic view of Aboriginal society, rock art, in appreciating social trajectories; Kimberley, Wanjina style, pre existing images and incorporation in present practice; Recursive element in Aboriginal Australian art, as reflected in rock art; Recursivity, tradition in dialogical relationship with human agency; Rock art being linked, to iterative and recursive elements of art practice; Rock art from the Indigenous perspective, past artistic practices and identity of place; Rock art, a continuing place in the lives of the Indigenous in Australia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873969218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118253892.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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