Murujuga : rock art, heritage, and landscape iconoclasm

著者

• González Zarandona, José Antonio

書誌事項

Murujuga : rock art, heritage, and landscape iconoclasm

José Antonio González Zarandona

University of Pennsylvania Press, c2020

• : hardcover

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-284) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A fascinating case study of the archaeological site at Murujuga, Australia Located in the Dampier Archipelago of Western Australia, Murujuga is the single largest archaeological site in the world. It contains an estimated one million petroglyphs, or rock art motifs, produced by the Indigenous Australians who have historically inhabited the archipelago. To date, there has been no comprehensive survey of the site's petroglyphs or those who created them. Since the 1960s, regional mining interests have caused significant damage to this site, destroying an estimated 5 to 25 percent of the petroglyphs in Murujuga. Today, Murujuga holds the unenviable status of being one of the most endangered archaeological sites in the world. Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona provides a full postcolonial analysis of Murujuga as well as a geographic and archaeological overview of the site, its ethnohistory, and its considerable significance to Indigenous groups, before examining the colonial mistreatment of Murujuga from the seventeenth century to the present. Drawing on a range of postcolonial perspectives, Zarandona reads the assaults on the rock art of Murujuga as instances of what he terms "landscape iconoclasm": the destruction of art and landscapes central to group identity in pursuit of ideological, political, and economic dominance. Viewed through the lens of landscape iconoclasm, the destruction of Murujuga can be understood as not only the result of economic pressures but also as a means of reinforcing-through neglect, abandonment, fragmentation, and even certain practices of heritage preservation-the colonial legacy in Western Australia. Murujuga provides a case study through which to examine, and begin to reject, archaeology's global entanglement with colonial intervention and the politics of heritage preservation.

目次

Foreword by Michel Lorblanchet List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I. MURUJUGA Chapter 1. Situating Murujuga Chapter 2. Murujuga and Its Meanings PART II. FROM THE COLONIAL GAZE TO THE ACADEMIC APPRECIATION OF ROCK ART Chapter 3. The Colonial Gaze Chapter 4. Rude Aesthetics Chapter 5. The Colonization of the Landscape PART III. ICONOCLASM, LANDSCAPE, AND HERITAGE Chapter 6. The Destruction of Landscape in Murujuga Chapter 7. The Making of Heritage PART IV. A THEROY OF LANDSCAPE ICONOCLASM Chapter 8. Landscape Iconoclasm Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC05735749
• ISBN:
  • 9780812251562
• LCCN: 2019031272
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Philadelphia
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 297 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : DU124.P47
  • DC23 : 994.1/3
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Petroglyphs -- Australia -- Burrup Peninsula (W.A.)
  • LCSH : Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Burrup Peninsula (W.A.)
  • LCSH : Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Burrup Peninsula (W.A.) -- Antiquities
  • LCSH : Iconoclasm
  • LCSH : Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- Australia -- Burrup Peninsula (W.A.)
  • LCSH : Landscape archaeology -- Australia -- Burrup Peninsula (W.A.)
  • LCSH : Cultural property -- Australia -- Burrup Peninsula (W.A.)
  • LCSH : Burrup Peninsula (W.A.) -- Antiquities
  • LCSH : Burrup Peninsula (W.A.) -- History