Gendering Aboriginalism
A Performative Gaze on Indigenous Australian Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3011304 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katelyn Barney (0000-0001-5513-5066, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692 |
| Publisher | University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5130/csr.v16i1.1440 |
| OpenAlex | W1986505740 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
One of the most common Aboriginalist representations of Indigenous Australian people is, as Indigenous female performer Lou Bennett points out, 'basically a man, out in the desert, black skin, flat nose with a lap-lap on, standing on one leg, resting against a spear'. Her comment raises many issues. In what ways are discourses of Aboriginalism gendered? How does Aboriginalism affect performance and specifically Aboriginal women performers? In exploring these questions, I examine Aboriginalist representations of Aboriginal women performers by white male scholars and the role of women anthropologists in the production of Aboriginalist discourse about Aboriginal women. Drawing on interviews with Indigenous women performers and musical examples of their songs, I explore the impact of Aboriginalism on non-Indigenous expectations of Indigenous Australian women performing in contemporary music contexts, the strategies performers use to work within and against these constructions and my own relationship to Aboriginalism
Aesthetics · Art · Gaze · Indigenous · Literature · Musical · Performance studies · Performative utterance · Performing arts · Project commissioning · Publishing · Sociology · Visual arts · White (mutation · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |