Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at
least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in …

How do we understand what others are trying to say? The answer cannot be found in
language alone. Words are linked to hand gestures and other visible phenomena to create …

The origins of rock art in Australia are probably as old as that of the hunter-gatherers of
Western Europe, well-known for the prehistoric caves of Altamira and Lascaux. That the …

Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art
that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing. Small leaves and other objects …

This book explores intimacy, immediacy and mobility as the core principles underpinning
contemporary everyday life in a central Australian Aboriginal settlement. It analyses an …

A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account and anthropological study of the
cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian …

Central to cultural, social, and conceptual life are cognitive artifacts, the perceptible
structures which populate our world and mediate our navigation of it, complementing …

ABSTRACT Ethnographic writings on Australian Aboriginal ontology and epistemology have
overlooked the phenomenological significance of the body and notions of embodiment in …

Across the Great Divide tracks a Pacific historian's fruitful, ambivalent engagements with
History and Anthropology, anticipating experiments in each discipline with the other's …

A semiological interpretation of art and myth is defended against the criticisms of Sperber
(1975) and Dubinskas & Traweek (1984). Following Ricoeur (1979) the creation of rock art …