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Yuendumu everyday [electronic resource] : contemporary life in remote Aboriginal Australia / Yasmine...

Yuendumu everyday [electronic resource] : contemporary ...

Yuendumu everyday [electronic resource] : contemporary life in remote Aboriginal Australia / Yasmine...

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Yuendumu everyday [electronic resource] : contemporary life in remote Aboriginal Australia / Yasmine Musharbash.

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Full title

Yuendumu everyday [electronic resource] : contemporary life in remote Aboriginal Australia / Yasmine Musharbash.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2010, c2008.

Alternative title

BOOK

Date

2010, c2008.

Record Identifier

74VKaVoLdmQX

MMS ID

991024415705202626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

1 online resource (213 p.)

Content type

text

Media type

computer

Carrier type

online resource

Contents

Cover; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Note on spelling and orthography; 1. Central Australia; 1. Everyday life in a remote Aboriginal settlement; 2. Spatial Camp divisions at Yuendumu; 3. Yuendumu settlement; 2. Camps, houses and ngurra; 4. The spa...

1. Average numbers of adults and children sleeping in the jilimi10. Nights/people in the jilimi; 2. Types of residents; 11. Genealogy of core residents; 5. In the jilimi: immediacy; 12. Sleeping arrangements, 29 November 1998; 13. Sleeping arrangements, 1 December 1998; 3. My positioning in the jili...

17. Tamsin's genealogyConclusion; Appendix: Yuendumu infrastructure; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Publication information

Publisher

Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2010, c2008.

Edition

1st ed.

Date Published

2010, c2008.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

Focusing on an isolated community in central Australia, this highly-readable examination presents insights into the cultural underpinnings of indigenous daily life through evocative narratives revolving around five Warlpiri women. The seemingly contradictory realities of a distant hunter-gatherer past and current life in a first-world nation-state...

Alternative Titles

Full title

Yuendumu everyday [electronic resource] : contemporary life in remote Aboriginal Australia / Yasmine Musharbash.

Variant title

BOOK

Authors, Artists and Contributors

Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Reprinted: 2009, 2010.

Incudes bibliographical references (p. 167-193) and index.

Language note

English

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Primary Identifiers

Record Identifier

74VKaVoLdmQX

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaVoLdmQX

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ISBN

0-85575-741-8

0-85575-691-8

DDC

305.89915

MMS ID

991024415705202626

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