Ancestral Connections
Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge

Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Art for Sale
3. Yolngu Society: An Outline
4. The Rights to Paint
5. Inside and Outside: The Yolngu System of Knowledge
6. Paintings as Meaningful Objects
7. The Meanings of Paintings in Ceremony
8. The Components of Yolngu Art
9. Changing with the Times: Categories of Art and the Composition of Paintings
10. Manggalili Iconography
11. Yingapungapu
12. Nyapililngu’s Blood
13. Conclusion: Yolngu Art and the Creativity of the Inside
Note on Orthography
Glossary
References
Index
Australian Inst. of Aboriginal Studies: Stanner Prize
Won
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
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