Author: Merlan, Francesca
Paperback; Illustrations
296 pages
Published: May 1998
University of Hawai'i Press
ISBN: 0824820452

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.This work explores the lives of Aborigines in the small regional town of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Combining ethnography and theory, it discusses the authenticity of contemporary cultural activity and the vulnerability of Fourth World peoples to others' representations of them.