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

• Autore: Musharbash Yasmine
• Pubblicazione: Canberra, A.C.T., : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2010, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.89915
• Soggetto topico: Aboriginal Australians - Australia - Yuendumu (N.T.); Warlpiri (Australian people) - Australia - Yuendumu (N.T.); Warlpiri (Australian people) - Social life and customs
• Soggetto geografico: Yuendumu (N.T.) Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Yuendumu everyday
• ISBN: 0-85575-691-8; 0-85575-741-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452960803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II