Activites     Fellowships     Groups     Courses     About    Schedule      Gianna Farrell . . . Activities Schedule CHATs Lectures Conferences Exhibits Past Programs   Fellowships Descriptions Fellows Listing   Groups Study Groups IRGs Consortia Co-Sponsorships New India Seminar PCMS   Courses CHAT Courses Graduate Courses   About About the Center Administration Advisory Board Directions Mailing List Contact Gianna Farrell is currently a fourth year doctoral student in the Anthropology Department at Temple University. Her research interests involve the production of acrylic canvases by Australian Aboriginal women and the way in which these images have been appropriated by Australians as a symbol of Australian national identity. She is concerned with the way in which Central and Western Desert Aboriginal women understand their bodies to be conflated with the land in which they reside. Ms. Farrell uses phenomenology simultaneously as a theoretical framework and as a methodology in order to understand the way in which Aboriginal cosmological conceptions are manifested in their artwork. The way in which the lived experiences of these women come to be embodied in their canvases is highly intriguing to Miss Farrell and the way in which they understand, not only their bodies, but their identities to be emplaced within a particular landscape is a research question that she finds particularly interesting. The second aspect of her research concerns the way in which images found in these acrylic paintings produced by Aborigines have come to stand as a symbol of "Australianness" within the Australian nation-state.       The Center for the Humanities 10th Floor, Gladfelter Hall 1115 West Berks Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122-6089 Phone - 215-204-6386 Fax - 215-204-8371 Email - chat@temple.edu