MAP-UA 536 - Cultures and Contexts: Indigenous Australia

Institution:

New York University

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The indigenous people of Australia have long been the subject of interest and imagination by outsiders for their cultural formulations of kinship, ritual, art, gender, and politics, and they have entered into representations as distinctively "other"-whether in negative or positive formulations of the "primitive." These representations-in feature films about them such as Walkabout and Rabbit-Proof Fence, in New Age literature, or in museum exhibitions-are now also in dialogue with their own forms of cultural production. At the same time, Aboriginal people have struggled to reproduce themselves and their traditions in their own terms, asserting their right to forms of cultural autonomy and self-determination. We explore the historical and geographical range of Aboriginal Australian forms of social being through ethnographic texts, art, novels, autobiographies, film, and other media, and consider the ways in which identity is being challenged and constructed.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.nyu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 998-1212

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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