Melinda Hinkson is a social anthropologist with wide-ranging interests in anthropology and visual culture. Since the mid-1990s she has worked with Warlpiri people in central Australia on various forms of visual production and mediation. She has published widely on the mediated relationships between Warlpiri and wider Australia, the history of Australian anthropology and the politics of knowledge production. Currently a senior lecturer in anthropology and Visual Culture Research at the Australian national university, from mid-2014 Melinda embarks on a four-year Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. She has previously written/published Aboriginal Sydney; Coercive reconciliation, An appreciation of differenceand Culture crisis.

This will be a very important book that breaks new ground in Aboriginal visual culture— Professor Jane Lydon

More than an art book, the text constitutes a major insight into the history and current circumstance of the Warlpiri themselves…a fresh reflexive and multiperspectival approach to the analysis of visual representation not found in many ‘art’ books…it marks a generational change and a new approach to scholarship. — Dr Luke Taylor