An Australian Indigenous diaspora : Warlpiri matriarchs and the refashioning of tradition / Paul Burke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, Paul, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Warlpiri (Australian people)--Social life and customs.

Warlpiri (Australian people).

Women, Aboriginal Australian--Social life and customs.

Women, Aboriginal Australian.

Aboriginal Australians--Migrations.

Aboriginal Australians.

Migration, Internal--Australia.

Migration, Internal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Origins of the Warlpiri Diaspora

"Getting Away": Reasons and Pathways

Making Alice Springs a Warlpiri Place

Warlpiri Women of Adelaide

Ambivalent Homecomings and the Politics of Home and Away.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83695-599-5

1-78533-389-5

OCLC:

1037884467