Foreword by Michel Lorblanchet
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I. MURUJUGA
Chapter 1. Situating Murujuga
Chapter 2. Murujuga and Its Meanings
PART II. FROM THE COLONIAL GAZE TO THE ACADEMIC APPRECIATION OF
ROCK ART
Chapter 3. The Colonial Gaze
Chapter 4. Rude Aesthetics
Chapter 5. The Colonization of the Landscape
PART III. ICONOCLASM, LANDSCAPE, AND HERITAGE
Chapter 6. The Destruction of Landscape in Murujuga
Chapter 7. The Making of Heritage
PART IV. A THEROY OF LANDSCAPE ICONOCLASM
Chapter 8. Landscape Iconoclasm
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Located in Western Australia, the massive archaeological site of Murujuga has been subject to decades of abuse from regional mining interests. José Antonio González Zarandona traces Murujuga's destruction from the seventeenth century until today, arguing that colonial interference in the region has resulted in landscape iconoclasm.
Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona is an Associate Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia and Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Mexico.
"It is hoped that this scholarly and extremely detailed publication
will assist in providing the necessary research impetus and
evidence to demand a review of the existing legislative framework
of the WA Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 and its administrative
processes . . . Hopefully the book can assist in preventing future
landscape iconoclasm and be used as a scholarly reference and
factual record of this significant but under protected part of our
important cultural heritage of international significance. It is an
outstanding contribution to our understanding of the importance of
this remote area of Australia, and a passionate plea for more
effective strategies to conserve and protect its significant
heritage values."
*Historic Environment*
"In his deep and valuable analysis of the destruction of Murujuga
petroglyphs and landscapes, José Antonio González Zarandona helps
us better understand a cultural catastrophe and, hopefully, prevent
future landscape iconoclasm."
*Jean Clottes, author of World Rock Art*
"In this outstanding book, José Antonio González Zarandona argues
persuasively that the categorization of Murujuga art as 'heritage'
has marginalized contemporary Aboriginal perspectives and that the
damage done to rock art imagery, sites, and landscapes adversely
impacts indigenous well-being. This harsh critique is an
impassioned call for the development of new strategies to conserve
culturally significant places across Australia and the world."
*Paul S.C. Taçon, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia*
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