The Impossible Aesthetic
The Abelam, the Moa Bird and Me
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18940529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diane Losche (UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 305-310 |
| Publication date | 1996-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oceania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-8077 • E-ISSN: 1834-4461 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1996.tb02561.x |
| OpenAlex | W2011690620 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This paper explores the ramifications of encounters which two Abelam men and the author had in the Australian Museum and Taronga Zoo in Sydney, 1982. Rather than place a ready‐made analytic framework on the men's experiences and rather than removing myself from the frame, as is usual in much anthropological analysis, I have chosen to explore the effects of these experiences on my own imagination. In the latter part of the paper I explore the way in which the imaginative entanglement of the Zoo and Museum experiences with my own memories has acted as a path of clues. This path has led to the development of the notion of sign which includes the idea of efficaciousness and transformation
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Frame (networking) · Path (computing) · Sign (mathematics) · Sociology · Telecommunications · Transformation (genetics) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Mathematics · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1997 - 2018 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |