$27.61
- Paperback
140 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2019
Summary
From Aboriginal history to kitschy souvenirs to the shelves of your local sports store, boomerangs have a fascinating place in history and popular culture. Author Philip Jones draws on the world’s largest boomerang collection at the South Australian Museum to describe the boomerang’s traditional uses and its more recent flight into western culture.
Boomerang is an extensive pictorial guide to this unique Australian icon, covering its uses and traditional and contemporary hist…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781862543829 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1862543828 |
| Author: | Philip Jones |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 140 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 170mm x 210mm |
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About The Author
Philip Jones
Philip Jones is an author and historian based at the South Australian Museum, where he undertakes research on Aboriginal art, history and material culture, and on anthropological, photographic and expeditionary history. He has undertaken fieldwork with Aboriginal people in the Simpson Desert region and, more recently, with Warlpiri people of Yuendumu. His landmark book, Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and encounters on Australian frontiers, won the 2008 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-fiction. He has an abiding interest in unlocking the histories of objects and their collectors.
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