Valda Blundell
Biographic Data
| ID | 106069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valda Blundell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valda |
| FAMILY NAME | Blundell |
| SIGNATURE | BLUNDELL V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Symbolic Systems and Cultural Continuity in Northwest Australia: A Consideration of Aboriginal Cave Art
Archaeological research in Australia suggests that Aboriginal foragers have successfully occupied the continent for many thousands of years. Furthermore, it appears that the trans-generational continuity of their cultural systems has been achieved in the face of a great deal of flux in the daily lives of individuals. This paper argues that Aboriginal cave art constitutes a set of symbols which have facilitated cultural continuity in the face of e…
Rock Art, Aboriginal Culture, and Identity: The Wanjina Paintings of Northwest Australia
This chapter contains sections titled: Abstract Rock Art, Cosmology, and the Wanjina-Wunggurr Cultural Landscape Gwion Gwion Rock Art and Aboriginal Identities Wunggurr Conception Sites Wurnan The Ritual Re-Painting of Rock Art Rock Art as the Basis for Contemporary Works of Art Rock Art, Aboriginal Heritage, and Native Title Conclusions Notes References
Marriage, Myth and Models of Exchange in the West Kimberleys
“Take home Canada”: Representations of aboriginal peoples as tourist souvenirs
Echoes of a Proud Nation”: Reading Kahnawake’s Powwow as a Post-Oka Text
After presenting one history of North American powwows as sites where aesthetic forms are deployed to transform meanings about aboriginal peoples, an analysis is offered of the powwow produced by the Kahnawake Mohawk a year after their involvement in the Oka crisis
Aboriginal empowerment and souvenir trade in Canada
Anthropological Applications of Optimal Foraging Theory: A Critical Review [and Comments and Reply]
Recent applications of models of optimal foraging behavior to human foraging economies are summarized and evaluated. These models predict patterns of prey choice, habitat use, time allocation, settlement pattern, and foraging group size that will maximize some objective currency (such as the net rate of energy capture while foraging) under the constraints of resource characteristics and forager capabilities pertaining to a particular situation. I…
If It's Not Shamanic, Is It Sham? An Examination of Media Responses to Woodland School Art
Cet article etudie les reactions des media d'information face a la peinture de 'Tecole Woodland et face a son fondateur Norval Morrisseau. Les auteurs evaluent les reactions des media, des musees, des galeries d'art y compris leurs difficultes a classer cet art considere tantot comme materiau ethnographique et tantot comme echantillon d'art moderne. Elles distinguent deux themes dominants dans l'interpretation de l'art de 'Tecole Woodland par les…
Territoriality Among Human Foragers: Ecological Models and an Application to Four Bushman Groups [and Comments and Reply]
Cost-benefit models derived from evolutionary ecology have led to the general expectation that territoriality will be found where resources are most abundant and predictable. Literature sources for four Bushman groups, however, indicate that the most territorial of these groups are found where resources are sparsest and most variable. This paper has as its aim the extension of the animal models of territoriality to make them more widely applicabl…
Homo Erectus: Papers in Honor of Davidson Black
Hunter-Gatherer Territoriality: Ideology and Behavior in Northwest Australia
Territoriality Among Human Foragers: Ecological Models and an Application to Four Bushman Groups [and Comments and Reply]
Cost-benefit models derived from evolutionary ecology have led to the general expectation that territoriality will be found where resources are most abundant and predictable. Literature sources for four Bushman groups, however, indicate that the most territorial of these groups are found where resources are sparsest and most variable. This paper has as its aim the extension of the animal models of territoriality to make them more widely applicabl…
Marriage, Myth and Models of Exchange in the West Kimberleys
Hunter-Gatherer Territoriality: Ideology and Behavior in Northwest Australia
Aboriginal empowerment and souvenir trade in Canada
If It's Not Shamanic, Is It Sham? An Examination of Media Responses to Woodland School Art
Cet article etudie les reactions des media d'information face a la peinture de 'Tecole Woodland et face a son fondateur Norval Morrisseau. Les auteurs evaluent les reactions des media, des musees, des galeries d'art y compris leurs difficultes a classer cet art considere tantot comme materiau ethnographique et tantot comme echantillon d'art moderne. Elles distinguent deux themes dominants dans l'interpretation de l'art de 'Tecole Woodland par les…
Hunter-Gatherer Territoriality: Ideology and Behavior in Northwest Australia
Homo Erectus: Papers in Honor of Davidson Black
Anthropological Applications of Optimal Foraging Theory: A Critical Review [and Comments and Reply]
Recent applications of models of optimal foraging behavior to human foraging economies are summarized and evaluated. These models predict patterns of prey choice, habitat use, time allocation, settlement pattern, and foraging group size that will maximize some objective currency (such as the net rate of energy capture while foraging) under the constraints of resource characteristics and forager capabilities pertaining to a particular situation. I…
If It's Not Shamanic, Is It Sham? An Examination of Media Responses to Woodland School Art
Cet article etudie les reactions des media d'information face a la peinture de 'Tecole Woodland et face a son fondateur Norval Morrisseau. Les auteurs evaluent les reactions des media, des musees, des galeries d'art y compris leurs difficultes a classer cet art considere tantot comme materiau ethnographique et tantot comme echantillon d'art moderne. Elles distinguent deux themes dominants dans l'interpretation de l'art de 'Tecole Woodland par les…
Territoriality Among Human Foragers: Ecological Models and an Application to Four Bushman Groups [and Comments and Reply]
Cost-benefit models derived from evolutionary ecology have led to the general expectation that territoriality will be found where resources are most abundant and predictable. Literature sources for four Bushman groups, however, indicate that the most territorial of these groups are found where resources are sparsest and most variable. This paper has as its aim the extension of the animal models of territoriality to make them more widely applicabl…
Echoes of a Proud Nation”: Reading Kahnawake’s Powwow as a Post-Oka Text
After presenting one history of North American powwows as sites where aesthetic forms are deployed to transform meanings about aboriginal peoples, an analysis is offered of the powwow produced by the Kahnawake Mohawk a year after their involvement in the Oka crisis
Aboriginal empowerment and souvenir trade in Canada
“Take home Canada”: Representations of aboriginal peoples as tourist souvenirs
Marriage, Myth and Models of Exchange in the West Kimberleys
Rock Art, Aboriginal Culture, and Identity: The Wanjina Paintings of Northwest Australia
This chapter contains sections titled: Abstract Rock Art, Cosmology, and the Wanjina-Wunggurr Cultural Landscape Gwion Gwion Rock Art and Aboriginal Identities Wunggurr Conception Sites Wurnan The Ritual Re-Painting of Rock Art Rock Art as the Basis for Contemporary Works of Art Rock Art, Aboriginal Heritage, and Native Title Conclusions Notes References
Symbolic Systems and Cultural Continuity in Northwest Australia: A Consideration of Aboriginal Cave Art
Archaeological research in Australia suggests that Aboriginal foragers have successfully occupied the continent for many thousands of years. Furthermore, it appears that the trans-generational continuity of their cultural systems has been achieved in the face of a great deal of flux in the daily lives of individuals. This paper argues that Aboriginal cave art constitutes a set of symbols which have facilitated cultural continuity in the face of e…
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