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An Australian Indigenous Diaspora : Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition / Paul Burke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785333880
  • 9781785333897
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.899/159 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations, Maps and Figures -- 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
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations, Maps and Figures -- 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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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