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This essay deals with aboriginals and their art. It concerns the tribal peoples of Arnhem Land, a portion of the Northern Territory of Australia in which there are still large numbers of aboriginals living and carrying on the artistic traditions of their ancestors. It disusses the mythical culture, the Dreamtime, which binds the aboriginals to their culture.

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"The aboriginals are the native peoples of Australia. These peoples are extremely important to anthropology, being perhaps the most studied of all peoples in the world. Indeed, they are central to defining anthropology, and to our understanding of what anthropology can say about modern man: the Western conception of man in nature, the whole idea of man's evolution, and the very nature of our inquiries into the notion of "primitiveness" have dealt with the problem of defining who the Aboriginals are, what they mean, and what they tell us about ourselves. . . . For if anthropology is the understanding or even the appropriation of..."

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