1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452960803321

Autore

Musharbash Yasmine

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-85575-691-8

0-85575-741-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Disciplina

305.89915

Soggetti

Aboriginal Australians - Australia - Yuendumu (N.T.)

Warlpiri (Australian people) - Australia - Yuendumu (N.T.)

Warlpiri (Australian people) - Social life and customs

Electronic books.

Yuendumu (N.T.) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprinted: 2009, 2010.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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 spatial terminology of camps; 5. The spatiality of gendered camps; 6. Iconography for ngurra; 7. Iconography for camp; 3. Transforming jilimi; 8. The jilimi - spatial layout; 9. Genealogy of Polly, Joy, Celeste and Nora; 4. In the jilimi: mobility

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 jilimi; 14. Sleeping arrangements, 3 May-7 May 1999; 6. In the jilimi: intimacy; 4. Sleeping companions; 5. Sleeping positions; 7.  Intimacy, mobility and immediacy during the day; 15. Flour distribution during mortuary rituals; 16. 'Hithering and thithering'; 8. Tamsin's fantasy



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

Sommario/riassunto

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 are addressed as this refreshing study answers questions about the specifics of camps, sleeping arrangements, public and private boundaries, and how indigenous people in praxis relate to each other. This ana

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003422879707536

Autore

Worth, Katharine

Titolo

Beckett the shape changer : a symposium / edited by Katharine Worth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975

ISBN

0710081235

Descrizione fisica

IX, 227 p. ; 22 cm

Disciplina

828.912

Soggetti

Beckett, Samuel Congressi 1975

Beckett, Samuel Congressi 1975

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003611999707536

Autore

Tusiani, Joseph

Titolo

Mallo e gheriglio e La quinta stagione : le altre poesie inglesi / Joseph Tusiani ; traduzioni di Maria C. Pastore Passaro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Bulzoni, c1987

Descrizione fisica

195 p. ; 21 cm.

Altri autori (Persone)

Pastore Passaro, Maria Concetta

Soggetti

Tusiani, Joseph - Poesie

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia