The Australian Desert
eBook - ePub

The Australian Desert

Nature, Culture, Future

  1. 340 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Australian Desert

Nature, Culture, Future

About this book

This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history of Australia.

Beginning with the prehistory of the continent, it engages with geology, the Aboriginal Dreaming narratives of origin, the arrival of the first Australians, Aboriginal culture of the Dreaming, anthropology, colonial history and the cult of the inland explorer-hero, and integration of the central deserts through the responses of writers, artists, and filmmakers into the national identity. Chapters explore the unique way Indigenous artists have evolved a method of expressing their spiritual relationship to Country, while hiding from uninitiated eyes the secret-sacred meaning beneath the paint. It takes us on a journey through the politics of Land Rights for First Nations peoples, the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and an analysis of Indigenous ecological principles which may suggest a new and radical approach to navigating climate change in the Anthropocene.

The Australian Desert is written for scholars of fine arts, anthropology, literature, film studies, cultural history, Indigenous studies, ecology and tourism, and for anyone interested in deserts.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsement
  3. Half-Title Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction
  12. PART I The Given
  13. 1 Two Creation Stories
  14. 2 The Diversity of Australian Deserts
  15. Part II The First Australians
  16. 3 The Mystery of the Gwion/Bradshaws
  17. 4 Arriving and Surviving
  18. 5 Dreaming the Land
  19. 6 Narrating the Land in Dance and Song
  20. 7 Traditional Aboriginal Art of the Desert
  21. PART III Encounter: Expectation, Exploration
  22. 8 A Clash of Cultures
  23. 9 European Myths of the Desert
  24. 10 ā€˜Footprints on the Sands of Timeā€™: Imperatives for Exploration
  25. 11 Geography Is Never Innocent: How the Explorers Created a Landscape
  26. 12 The Art of Exploration: Visualising the Desert
  27. 13 Heroes for the Nation: Mythologising the Explorers
  28. 14 Boysā€™ Own Adventures at the Edge of Empire
  29. PART IV Engagement
  30. 15 From Dead Heart to Red Centre: Tales of Travel and Reefs of Gold
  31. 16 Getting over the Colour Green: Western Artists Discover the Desert
  32. 17 The Gothic Desert: Psychodrama in Fiction and Film
  33. 18 Figures of the Subconscious: Re-Visioning the Explorers
  34. 19 Transforming Myths: Re-Telling the Stories of Exploration
  35. 20 The Language of Landscape: Natureā€™s Self-Portrait
  36. 21 The Lure of the Desert: Self-Discovery and Renewal
  37. 22 Hidden in Full Sight: Indigenous Desert Art
  38. 23 Selling the Centre: Desert Tourism
  39. 24 What Can We Learn from Aboriginal Culture in the Anthropocene?
  40. Bibliography
  41. Index