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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... vol. 18 no. 1 1 March 2012 of Cultural Studies Review est. 2002 Cultural Studies Review
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* Contents derived from the 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Ten Canoes and the Ethnographic Photographs of Donald Thomson : ‘Animate Thought’ and ‘The Light of the World’, Anne Rutherford , single work criticism
'This article explores the genesis of the film Ten Canoes in the photographs taken by anthropologist Donald Thomson, in Arnhem Land, in the 1930s. Thomson's images profoundly informed the look and content of the film, and the paper traces this genealogy in order to identify a 'cultural imaginary' at work in the film. I argue that a close study of Thomson's original photographs reveals an approach to photography and to culture that dramatically exceeds the boundaries of the detached anthropological/scientific gaze. Thomson's vision is a highly tactile one. His images are as much an encounter with the light of the world as they are a document of a time, an environment and a culture; his lens is as much an organ of touch as an instrument of observation. In a remarkable example of what Tim Ingold has called 'animate thought', Thomson uses the materiality of photography to make manifest a life-world in which reeds, water and sky are as animate as human figures. Not easily accessible to established criteria for analysing ethnographic images, such as questions of self-reflexivity, Thomson's polycentric images profoundly challenge the humanist assumptions of many contemporary approaches to reading images. This insight raises new questions about both ethnographic photography and the relationship between the photographs and Ten Canoes.' (Author's abstract)
(p. 107-137)
Can You Anchor a Shimmering Nation State via Regional Indigenous Roots? Kim Scott talks to Anne Brewster about That Deadman Dance, Anne Brewster (interviewer), single work interview
'This interview focuses mainly on Kim Scott's new novel That Deadman Dance which won the regional Commonwealth Writers Prize (Southeast Asian and Pacific region) and the Miles Franklin Award. The topics of conversation include Scott's involvement in the Noongar language project (and the relationship of this project to the novel), the novel itself, the challenges of writing in English, the resistance paradigm and indigenous sovereignty and nationalism.' (Author's abstract)
(p. 228-246)
The Shimmering Dam, Jesse Thomas Shipway , single work prose

'This piece is an attempt to understand physical structures intertextually and to map mental forms and biographical fragments onto architectural objects.

It stands language games and postures of articulation next to one another to produce meaning through differentiation and creative negation.' (Author's abstract)

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