Hansen 1983

Hansen 1983

Reference
	Hansen, Lesley. 1983. "Pintupi art forms and their implications for literacy." Notes on Literacy. Interest level: lay specialist.

Summary
	Describes the symbolism used in Pintupi storytelling. Suggests because the Pintupi use symbolic drawings rather than representational drawing, they would not be able to successfully glean information from Western or European style artwork. Notes some Pintupi requested Western or European artwork for their primers because it was prestigious.

Evaluation
	Article is useful to make a case for using local art forms. Points out the dilemma of using Western art as a prestige item rather than as a completely functional part of the material.

Context for this page:

Bibliography module: Hansen 1983
In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): H
In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
In document collection: Reference materials
In bookshelf: Literacy

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