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A Man of all Tribes: The Life of Alick Jackomos
The son of Greek migrant parents, Jackomos was born in Collingwood and grew up in the Great Depression, mixing with people from a range of backgrounds. He was at different...
The New Four Winds Guide to American Indian Artifacts
A wonderful array of authentic Indian-made items of both old and new vintage is showcased in this engaging book. Nearly 800 color photos present clothing and accessories for men and...
The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art
'The Blood of Kings' makes full use of the tremendous progress made in deciphering the complicated Maya hieroglyphic code, effectively penetrating the world and minds of the creators of Maya...
A Book of Balance: Kogi Wisdom for a Good Life and Thriving Earth
" A Book of Balance should be read by every architect, engineer, manager, leader, and anyone with authority in the creation of our modern world....Everyone can benefit from this book...
And Then She Fell
Longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction. On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn;...
Traditional Mehndi Designs: a Treasury of Henna Body Art
$20.00 AUD
The ancient art of henna body painting, still practiced in India, Africa, and the Middle East, is now popular in the West. This book contains over five hundred traditional Indian...
Tents and Pyramids: Games and Ideology in Arab Culture from Backgammon
$20.00 AUD
This study deals with an unusual and absorbing topic: how the Arabs see and deal with reality and the implications this has for the nature of power in the Arab...
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist. William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and...
Light at the Edge of the World
In this title, Wade Davis presents 80 images from the many thousands of photographs he has taken over the course of his explorations. Setting the photographs in context, his evocative...
Atua: Sacred Gods from Polynesia
$120.00 AUD
The Polynesian concept of atua -of gods, figurative objects and associated beliefs-developed over thousands of years and spread throughout the region. The superb examples of sculpture illustrated in this volume...
Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial
$20.00 AUD
Tribal art has been one of the great inspirations of 20th-century Western art. Europeans such as Picasso, Matisse, Ernst and Brancusi created their own responses to masks, sculpture and other...
Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia
$200.00 AUD
Indigenous concepts of time play a critical role in the works of many contemporary Australian artists. Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia showcases prime examples, featuring many...
A Grandmother Begins the Story
Written like a crooked Metis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that could remake their worlds and...
Aztecs: Conquest and Glory
$12.00 AUD
Who were the Aztecs, how did they become so powerful, and where did they go? This new book traces the Aztec Empire's 200-year span, from its mythical beginings to its...
How to Save the Amazon: A journalist's deadly quest for answers
A GUARDIAN 2025 BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO ' Bold, pacy, bursting with optimism and filled with vivid descriptions, this is the work of an indomitable soul' - Guy Shrubsole...
Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial 2007
Presenting the work of thirty artists from each Australian state and territory, the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial demonstrates the incredible range of contemporary Indigenous art practice. The works included...
Anangu Collective
Why are these specific artworks the subject of this first monograph? Produced in 2018, the sumptuous paintings, aa is the Kulata Tjuta Kupi Kupi installation, are collaborative artworks. They are...
Spirit Song: The Introduction of No-Eyes
The first volume in a series of books written by Mary Summer Rain about her experiences with an extraordinary Native American shaman called "No-Eyes," Spirit Song has become one of...
Riverland: Yvonne Koolmatrie
$60.00 AUD
Riverland - Yvonne Koolmatrie charts the decades-long practice of the renowned Ngarrindjeri weaver. Embedded in the traditions of Ngarrindjeri culture and animated by her boundless imagination, Koolmatrie's elegant woven forms...
Centre Bounce: Football from Australia's Heart
Football is a part of everyday life for almost every Aboriginal kid who grows up in the Northern Territory. In this powerful collection of black and white photography, Jesse Marlow...
Journey in Time: 50, 000 Year Story of the Australian Aboriginal Rock
$200.00 AUD
This is the 50,000-year story of the Australian Aboriginal rock art of Arnhem Land. Aboriginal rock art, as practised in Arnhem Land, is the world's longest continuing art tradition. It...
Tarnanthi 2015 Catalogue
Tarnanthi accompanies the inaugural Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and a series of exhibitions held at the Art Gallery of South Australia and partner organisations across...
Martung Upah: Black and White Australians Seeking Partnership
The book titled Martung Upah: Black and White Australians Seeking Partnership by the author Anne Pattel-Gray. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Myth of Primitivism
This book explores the fusion of myth, history and geography which leads to ideas of primitivism, and looks at their construction, interpretation and consumption in Western culture. Contextualized by Susan...
Afloat
Roam the water with me. We are here to learn. Here to spin wisdom, to grow ... From award-winning Gunai author Kirli Saunders and seven-time CBCA-winner Freya Blackwood comes Afloat...
Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories
Becoming Art provides a new analysis of the shifting cultural and social contexts that surround the production of Aboriginal art. Transcending the boundaries between anthropology and art history, the book...
The Encounter: Amazon Beaming
1971, the American photographer Loren McIntyre finds himself stranded in the depths of the Amazon rainforest, on the border between Brazil and Peru. Finding refuge with the Mayoruma tribe -...
Hunting by Stars
The thrilling follow-up to the bestselling, award-winning novel The Marrow Thieves , about a dystopian world where the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow...
Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route
The Aboriginal people of Australia's Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining...
Desert Dawn
Now in B format. I wanted to return to the place where I was born and see it with new eyes. I had no idea where my family was in...
Minority Rights in the Pacific Region: A Comparative Legal Analysis
Countries in the Pacific face unique challenges of survival and progress in establishing themselves and participating fully in international society. Their geographic isolation from the rest of global society is...
Rock Paintings of Aboriginal Australia
This is the eighth volume of the popular Green Guide series initiating readers into the world of natures's deadly armoury. Discover poisonous fangs, venomous spurs, disease-laden body piercing, slicing jaws,...
Blue Stars: Mission One: The Vice Principal Problem: A Graphic Novel
Two everyday superheroes set out to save the world-starting with their school-in an exciting new middle-grade graphic series from two award-winning authors and a debut illustrator. When cousins Riley Halfmoon...
Role Model: Taking up space in the fashion world
Samantha Harris has one of the most recognisable faces in Australia's fashion industry, but her success was anything but expected. In an industry built on European beauty ideals, her breakthrough...
Moonlight and Dust
There's something dangerous in the air. It shimmers in the night, wrapped in the warm, humid breeze. I stand on the kerb outside my cousin's house waiting for my sister....
Painting the Land Story
$45.00 AUD
For many Indigenous Australians, the act of painting is a kind of personal religious communion between the artist and the ancestral creation beings that made the country. In Painting the...
White Aborigines: Identity Politics in Australian Art
This book investigates how identities have been constructed in Australian art from 1788 to the present. Ian McLean shows that Australian art, and the writing of its history, has since...
Those Pink Mountain Nights
In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet , Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past...
Songlines and Fault Lines: Epic Walks of the Red Centre
Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia, but find a place both beautiful and disturbing. There is wilderness, desire and an Aboriginal philosophy of home. But...
The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the
*A NEW YORK TIMES PICK FOR TOP 22 NONFICTION BOOKS TO READ THIS FALL!* A Navajo Ranger's chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal...
Aboriginal Darwin: A guide to important places of the past and present
To most visitors and locals, Darwin is a vibrant, tropical city in the Top End. Although not always obvious, Darwin is also a living Aboriginal cultural landscape. There are as...
Nomad: Two Worlds
*** REDUCED TO $49.99 WHILST STOCKS LAST *** 'Nomad Two Worlds' traces the remarkable creative journey of internationally renowned Australian photographer Russell James through his fine art project, 'Nomad Two...
How to Talk to Children About World Art
For anyone who wants their children to understand and love the art of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, this guide has questions and answers about thirty amazing objects. Anticipating...
Obliged to be Difficult: Nugget Coombs' Legacy in Indigenous Affairs
Since the 1967 constitutional referendum, Australian governments have moved towards policies of indigenous self-determination. Obliged to be Difficult presents the central issue of self-determination as seen by Dr H. C....
Tribes
$40.00 AUD
As civilization expands, it encroaches on tribal ways of life and the customs of indigenous peoples begin to change. To celebrate these fast-disappearing traditions, nature photographer Art Wolfe has travelled...