Abstract
He’s taking the bones now, taking the bones. He reaches into the hollow of a crevice; the rear of his trousers, protruding towards the camera, is stained with channels of sweat. Turning to face us, he unwraps a mandible from a blackened shred of rag. Bespectacled, and with lips pursed beneath a trim moustache, his officer’s deportment is upset by a slash of blue headband that gives him a piratical craziness. He adds the jaw to a wooden crate already full of arm and leg bones, butted up against a skull. The guts of this narrative—if ‘guts’ is quite the word when we are dealing with bodies so fleshless—hinge on this and other kindred events.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Circulating Cultures: Exchanges of Australian Indigenous Music, Dance and Media |
Editors | Amanda Harris |
Place of Publication | Canberra |
Publisher | ANU E Press |
Pages | 129-169pp |
Volume | 1 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781925022193 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |