Stanton, John E. (Ed.)

Little Paintings, Big Stories. Gossip Songs of Western Arnhem Land

Perth: Berndt Museum of Anthropology, 2013. 1st ed., quarto, pp.104, col and b&w plates, maps, music notation, orig stiff illustrated wraps. Near fine condition.

Accompanied exhibition. Explores the relationship between people, country and the stories of "gossip songs" by the local indigenous language groups of the Goulburn Islands and Western Arnhem Land between 1948 and 1964. Includes Berndt's "Other Creatures in Human Guise and Vice Versa: A Dilemma in Understanding" and a more recent essay "Dilemmas in Interpretation: contemporary perspectives on Berndt's Goulburn Island documentation" Item #103032

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