Caging the Rainbow

Download or read book Caging the Rainbow written by Francesca Merlan and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caging the Rainbow explores the lives of Aborigines in the small regional town of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Francesca Merlan combines ethnography and theory to grapple with issues surrounding the debate about the authenticity of contemporary cultural activity. Throughout, the vulnerability of Fourth World peoples to others' representations of them and the ethical problems this poses are kept in view.