Rock Art, Aboriginal Culture, and Identity: The Wanjina Paintings of Northwest Australia

A Companion to Rock Art

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 472-487

  Blundell, Valda ^a   Woolagoodja, Donny ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Lalai, visual, emotional intertwined with beliefs about Wunggurr; Ritual re painting of the fading Wanjina, the seniors' respect for spiritual beings; Rock art, Aboriginal culture, Wanjina paintings of Northwest Australia; Rock art, cosmology, the Wanjina Wunggurr cultural landscape; Rock art, Wanjina "paintings" and linguistic identities; The displaced Wanjina Wunggurr, with Kimberley traditions intact; The Kimberley region of Australia, the Wanjina rock art in the world; Wanjina rock art, documented traditions of a contemporary Indigenous society; Wanjina, sacred sentient beings, interacting with the Wanjina Wunggurr; Wanjina Wunggurr rock art, the way to transmissible contemporary art

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887134712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118253892.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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