Table of Contents

Introduction - Diana Young; Chapter 1 - Does colour matter? An affordance perspective Alan Costall;Chapter 2 - Pink cake, red eyes, coloured photos: Desire, loss and Aboriginal aesthetics in northern Australia Jennifer Deger; Chapter 3 - How much longer can the Berlin and Kay paradigm dominate visual semantics? English, Russian and Warlpiri seen from the native's point of view Anna Wierzbicka; Chapter 4 - Cinematographic encounters with natural-light colour Cathy Greenhalgh; Chapter 5 -Iridescence Peter Sutton and Michael Snow; Chapter 6 - Colour as the edge of the body; Colours as space-time in the east of the Western Desert Diana Young; Chapter 7 - The role of colour in a period when cultures crossed Paintings from Central Australia from the 1930s to 1980 Mary Eagle; Chapter 8 -Notes on the hapticity of colour Jennifer L. Biddle; Chapter 9 - Paint as power among Kuninjku artists Luke Taylor; Chapter 10 - The problems of translating colour terms Barbara Saunders; Contributors;Index.

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About the Author

Diana Young (Editor) is Director of the Masters in Museum Studies Programme at the University of Queensland. She was Director of the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum for eight years.

Reviews

This is a very beautiful book, replete with the insightful essays that the topic demands. It will change the way you think about colour. In a brilliant paradox, it challenges the very existence of colours only to bring colour back into the centre of human lives. This volume weaves an argument that cuts across history, art and time; Howard Morphy, Distinguished Professor, Australian National University College of Arts & Social Sciences;Rematerializing Colour leaves any understanding of colour as an add-on or surface phenomenon behind. Embracing colours as dynamic, transformative materialities inherent to a multitude of experiences, environments and things, and to the formation of subjectivitiesand collective identities, contributors' essays are centred upon colours' mutable, palpable,excessive and affectively charged capacities and effects;Patricia Spyer, Professor of Anthropology & Sociology,The Graduate Institute, Geneva.