ABSTRACT

The Strehlow Archive is one of Australia's most important collections of film, sound, archival records and museum objects relating to the ceremonial life of Aboriginal people. The aim of this book is to provide a significant study of the relationship of archives to contemporary forms of digital mediation. The volume introduces a specific archive, the Strehlow Collection, and tracks the ways in which its materials and research dissemination practices are influenced by media forms we now identify with the emergence of digital technology.

chapter 1|9 pages

Introduction

Archaeologies of the digital archive and the persistence of cultural memory

chapter 2|16 pages

The Strehlow Collection

A dangerous archive

chapter 4|15 pages

Mr. Strehlow’s Films

Digitizing the dreaming

chapter 5|20 pages

Image archives as totemic geomedia

chapter 6|19 pages

Databases and the book

T.G.H. Strehlow’s Journey to Horseshoe Bend

chapter 7|18 pages

Cantata Journey

Songs and Central Australia

chapter 9|9 pages

Conclusion

Genealogies of memory, an ethos of storytelling?