Indigenous Cultural Network) at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Studies in Canberra, with the pilot project of the Pitjantjatjara Council (Gulash & Arley 2001). Australian museums—like Canadian ones—have agreed to work within new protocols which require respect for cultural constraints. This may involve producing databases which function with passwords to allow the right group to access information through the internet. This process, which associates the recording of heritage with the repatriation of knowledge, should be encouraged so that cultural objects spread all over the world can be reunited through the establishment of virtual museums. Acknowledgments An oral version of this paper was presented to AIATSIS Conference2001 Symposium C ‘The resonance of tradition’, Session 7 ‘The Production and Reception of Contemporary Media Technology, convened by Helena Gulash (AIATSIS). References Elias, D.J. 2001 Golden dreams: people, place and mining in the Tanami Desert. doctoral thesis, Australian National University, Canberra. Glowczewski, B. 1991 Du Rêve à la Loi chez les Aborigènes—Mythes rites et organisation en Australie. PUF, Paris. ——1996 [1989] Les Rêveurs du désert—Warlpiri d’Australie. Actes Sud/Babel, Arles. ——1999a Pistes de Rêve aborigènes. Xoana 6:13–25. ——1999b Négociations pour la fabrication et la distribution d’un cédérom: ‘Yapa - Art rituel du désert central australien’. Journal des Anthropologues 79:81–98. ——2000/01 Dream trackers. Yapa art and knowledge of the Australian desert (Pistes de Rêve—Art et savoir des Yapa du désert australien). CD-ROM, UNESCO Publishing, Paris, Geneva and New York. <http://portal.unesco.org/sc_nat/ev.php?URL_ID=3540&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&UR L_SECTION=201&reload=1084895885> [Photographs: http://portal.unesco.org/sc_nat/file_download.php/yapa_photos.html?URL_ID=3475& filename=10821174015yapa_photos.html&filetype=text%2Fhtml&filesize=1680&na me=yapa_photos.html&location=user-S/ ] ——2002 Culture cult. The ritual circulation of inalienable objects and appropriation of cultural knowledge (North-West Australia). In M. Jeudy Ballini and B. Juillerat (eds), People and things—Social Mediation in Oceania. Carolina Academic Press, Durham. Gulash, H. and B. Arley, 2001 Indigenous Australian peoples utilising new technologies to reclaim cultural materials and knowledge. In Indigenous Identities: oral and written expressions and new technologies, International conference. UNESCO Paris, 14–17 May. Hinkson, M. 1999 Warlpiri connections: new technology, new enterprise and emergent social forms at Yuendumu. Doctoral thesis, La Trobe University, Melbourne. Kendon, A., 1988 Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, semiotic and communicative perspectives. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Laughren, M. (ed.) 1983/1994 Warlpiri dictionary project—Warlpiri dictionary entries, Fauna domain, Flora domain, Body Parts, Verbs. Mimeo and disks, Yuendumu. Leroi-Gourhan, A. 1964 Le geste et la parole II La mémoire et les rythmes. Albin Michel, Paris.
