An Australian Indigenous Diaspora
Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition
Seiten
2018
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-388-0 (ISBN)
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-388-0 (ISBN)
This book is a multi-sited ethnography of the migration of a minority of the aboriginal Warlpiri away from their traditional homeland to distant towns and cities.
Some indigenous people, while remaining attached to their traditional homelands, leave them to make a new life for themselves in white towns and cities, thus constituting an “indigenous diaspora”. This innovative book is the first ethnographic account of one such indigenous diaspora, the Warlpiri, whose traditional hunter-gatherer life has been transformed through their dispossession and involvement with ranchers, missionaries, and successive government projects of recognition. By following several Warlpiri matriarchs into their new locations, far from their home settlements, this book explores how they sustained their independent lives, and examines their changing relationship with the traditional culture they represent.
Some indigenous people, while remaining attached to their traditional homelands, leave them to make a new life for themselves in white towns and cities, thus constituting an “indigenous diaspora”. This innovative book is the first ethnographic account of one such indigenous diaspora, the Warlpiri, whose traditional hunter-gatherer life has been transformed through their dispossession and involvement with ranchers, missionaries, and successive government projects of recognition. By following several Warlpiri matriarchs into their new locations, far from their home settlements, this book explores how they sustained their independent lives, and examines their changing relationship with the traditional culture they represent.
Paul Burke is currently a Visiting Fellow at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University. In 2009, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the Australian Research Council to conduct the research for this book. His previous work on anthropologists in native title claims, Law’s Anthropology, was published by ANU Press in 2011.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Origins of the Warlpiri Diaspora
Chapter 2. ‘Getting Away’: Reasons and Pathways
Chapter 3. Making Alice Springs a Warlpiri Place
Chapter 4. Warlpiri Women of Adelaide
Chapter 5. Ambivalent Homecomings and the Politics of Home and Away
Conclusion
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.08.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 11 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78533-388-7 / 1785333887 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78533-388-0 / 9781785333880 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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