Title Yuendumu everyday : intimacy, immediacy and mobility in a remote Aboriginal settlement / Yasmine Musharbash

Published Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2008

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Description xii, 199 p. : ill., 1 map ; 22 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: 1 Everyday life in a remote Aboriginal settlement 1 -- 2 Camps, houses and ngurra 26 -- 3 Transforming jilimi 46 -- 4 In the jilimi: mobility 59 -- 5 In the jilimi: immediacy 77 -- 6 In the jilimi: intimacy 95 -- 7 Intimacy, mobility and immediacy during the day 112 -- 8 Tamsin's fantasy 139 -- Conclusion 150 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 hunter gatherer 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 Analysis Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia) Notes Includes index Bibliography Incudes bibliographical references: p. 183-193 and index Notes Text in English with Warlpiri terms and glossary Print version record Subject Spatial behaviour -- Northern Territory -- Yuendumu Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Social life and customs Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Australia -- Yuendumu (N.T.) -- Social life and customs Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Australia -- Yuendumu (N.T.) Women, Warlpiri -- Australia -- Yuendumu (N.T.) Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Yuendumu (N.T.) Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Yuendumu Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Northern Territory -- Yuendumu Daily life - Domestic - Sleeping Demography - Population mobility Habitation - Camps History - Genealogy and family history Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage Social organisation - Relationships Food - Sociocultural aspects - Sharing Death - Mortuary customs Indigenous knowledge - World view Daily life Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Aboriginal Australians. Manners and customs. Warlpiri (Australian people) Women, Warlpiri. Warlpiri language C15 Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Social life and customs. Walpiri language C15 SUBJECT Yuendumu (N.T.) -- Social life and customs Subject Yuendumu (South Central NT SF52-12) Yuendumu. Northern Territory -- Yuendumu. LC no. 2009396158 ISBN 9780855756611 (pbk.) :

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