Articles about the films
Introduction: Aboriginal ceremonies in Central Australia
The Origins of Theatre: Victor Turner, Durkheim, Van Gennep
Film Reviews from The American Anthropologist
Films
Coniston Muster
Scenes of the annual roundup on a cattle ranch in Central Australia from a time when most of the stockmen were Indigenes. (1970)
An Australian writer living in Sydney, Roger Sandall is the author of The Culture Cult (2001), a study of romantic primitivism and its effects. His work has appeared in a number of places including Commentary, The American Interest, Encounter, The New Criterion, The American, Sight and Sound, Quadrant, Art International, The New Lugano Review, The Salisbury Review, Merkur, Mankind, Visual Anthropology, and Social Science and Modern Society.