Resistance and remembering through rock art: Contact-period rock art in Wardaman country, Northern Australia

IF 1.1 3区 历史学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
Madeleine A. Kelly, Wardaman Indigenous Protected Area
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Abstract

Although notions of resistance are not new in rock art research concerning cross-cultural colonial encounters, this study shows how multiple dimensions of Indigenous resistance can be explored through a multidisciplinary analysis of rock art in northern Australia. The study explores the intersections between introduced “Western” and pre-existing “traditional” motifs in rock art near Yingalarri waterhole in Wardaman Country, Northern Territory, analysing the visual conventions and superimpositions with an eye towards Wardaman epistemological engagements with rock art and experiences of colonial occupation. These intersections reveal further dimensions of Wardaman responses to colonial occupation, including the negotiation of shifting inter-regional relationships and engagements with Country as well as the continued emphasis on inherited artistic practices. The study also explores the continuing role that rock art, and its interpretation, plays in Indigenous colonial resistance. Wardaman discussions of introduced motifs documented during the 1988–1991 Earthwatch project brought the paintings out of the past, giving them contemporary significance via kinship connections and narratives of survival that challenge colonial efforts to erase Indigenous experiences of early colonial contact and occupation. The paper contributes to archaeological understandings of inter-regional connections between northern Australian rock art regions and rock art production and discussion as a means for Aboriginal resistance and remembrance after the arrival of Europeans.

岩石艺术中的抵抗与记忆:澳大利亚北部瓦尔达曼地区接触时期的岩石艺术
尽管在涉及跨文化殖民遭遇的岩石艺术研究中,抵抗的概念并不新鲜,但本研究表明,通过对澳大利亚北部岩石艺术的多学科分析,可以探索土著抵抗的多个维度。本研究探讨了北领地Wardaman Country英加拉里水坑附近岩石艺术中引入的“西方”和已有的“传统”主题之间的交集,分析了视觉惯例和叠加,着眼于Wardaman与岩石艺术的认识论接触和殖民占领经验。这些交集揭示了沃达曼对殖民占领的回应的进一步维度,包括改变区域间关系的谈判和与国家的接触,以及对继承艺术实践的持续强调。该研究还探讨了岩石艺术及其解释在土著殖民抵抗中所起的持续作用。Wardaman讨论了在1988-1991年地球观察项目中记录的引入主题,将这些绘画带出了过去,通过亲属关系和生存叙事赋予它们当代意义,这些叙事挑战了殖民主义抹掉早期殖民接触和占领的土著经历的努力。这篇论文有助于考古学对澳大利亚北部岩石艺术地区之间的区域间联系的理解,以及作为欧洲人到来后土著抵抗和纪念手段的岩石艺术生产和讨论。
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期刊介绍: Archaeology in Oceania is published online and in print versions three times a year: April, July, October. It accepts articles and research reports in prehistoric and historical archaeology, modern material culture and human biology of ancient and modern human populations. Its primary geographic focus is Australia, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and lands of the western Pacific rim. All articles and research reports accepted as being within the remit of the journal and of appropriate standard will be reviewed by two scholars; authors will be informed of these comments though not necessarily of the reviewer’s names.
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