New Book Recommendation: Indigenous Archives: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art

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A title of interest that is relevant to the library as our Eddie Koiki Mabo Art Exhibiton is occuring:

Indigenous archives: The making and unmaking of Aboriginal art edited by Darren Jorgensen and Ian McLean.
Call Number: 704.039915 IND

An extract from the publisher states:

The archive is a source of power. It takes control of the past, deciding which voices will be heard and which won’t, how they will be heard and for what purposes. Indigenous archivists were at work well before the European Enlightenment arrived and began its own archiving. Sometimes at odds, other times not, these two ways of ordering the world have each learned from, and engaged with, the other. Colonialism has been a struggle over archives and its processes as much as anything else.