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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 An Australian Indigenous Diaspora : Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition
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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.'  (Publication summary)

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  • CONTENTS

    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

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Berghahn Books ,
      2018 .
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      Extent: x, 237 pp.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 2018

      ISBN: 9781785333880
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