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Author:Musharbash, Yasmine.
Title:Yuendumu everyday : contemporary life in remote Aboriginal Australia / Yasmine Musharbash.
Also Titled:Yuendumu everyday
Online Resource:Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0906/2009396158.html
Published:Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2008.
Description:xii, 199 p. : ill., 1 map ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780855756611 (pbk.)
LC Call Number:GN667.Y84
Dewey Number:305.89915
Summary:"Yuendumu Everyday explores intimacy, immediacy and mobility as the core principles underpinning contemporary everyday life in a central Australian Aboriginal settlement. It analyses an everyday shaped through the interplay between a not so distant huntergatherer past and the realities of living in a first-world nationstate by considering such apparently mundane matters as: What is a camp? How does that relate to houses? Who sleeps where, and next to whom? Why does this constantly change? What and where are the public/private boundaries? And most importantly: How do Indigenous people in praxis relate to each other? Employing a refreshingly readable writing style, Musharbash includes rich vignettes, including narrative portraits of five Warlpiri women. Musharbashs descriptions and analyses of their actions and the situations they find themselves in, transcend the general and illuminate the personal. She invites readers to ponder the questions raised by the book, not just at an abstract level, but as they relate to peoples actual lives. In doing so, it expands our understandings of Indigenous Australia."--Provided by publisher.
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 183-193.
Subjects:Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Yuendumu.
Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Northern Territory -- Yuendumu.
Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Social life and customs.
Yuendumu (N.T.) -- Social life and customs.
Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia)
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