NORTHERN IRELAND POLITICAL MURALS
Laurie Taylor talks to Professor , a sociologist who has amassed a unique photographic archive of Northern Ireland’s political murals over twenty years and more.
Although the murals have been used as backdrops in innumerable documentaries and dramas and proved to be something of a tourist attraction, they have tended to be treated as a static phenomenon.
In reality, the murals continue to play a dynamic part in Northern Ireland’s on-going political process.Ìý Sometimes their existence is long-lived, other times it is fleeting but as their student and archivist explains, every mural has a story to tell about a particular moment in history, or an important shift in power between the two sides or about developing tensions within the divided communities of Northern Ireland.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
As we near the end of what the United Nations dubbed, A Decade for Indigenous Peoples, anthropologist Professor , explains why he believes that much of the rhetoric surrounding the definition and identification of indigenous people is both bad anthropology and bad tactics as well.
Additional information:
Beyond the Pale
ISBN 0 9514229 3 6
Beyond the Pale
ISBN 0 9514229 7 9
Drawing Support 3: Murals and Transition in the North of Ireland
Beyond the Pale
ISBN 1 900960 23 0
Compiled by Bill Rolston (1998)
Politics and Paintings: Murals and Conflict in Northern Ireland
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, an Associated University Press Publisher ISBN: 0838633862
Changing the Political Landscape: Murals and Transition in Northern Ireland
Irish Studies Review
Vol 11, No1 2003
The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion
Routledge, an imprint of TaylorÌýand Francis Books Ltd ISBN 0415009030
Culture: The Anthropologists' Account
Harvard University Press
ISBN 0674004175
The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity
Harvard University Press
ISBN 0674128265
Current Anthropology
Volume 44, no.3
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