page_title: Walkabout
section_title: Definition
hierarchical_section_title: Walkabout / Definition
caption_attribution_description: English: An indigenous Australian fisherman. An illustration to a Czech-language travelogue Obrazy z jižní polokoule ("Pictures from the Southern Hemisphere"), chapter I. Hostem u českobratrského misionáře ("As a guest of a Bohemian Brother missionary"). This picture (and others in the same article) were taken around Ramahyuck mission outside Stratford, Victoria. Alt version of File:Indigenous Australian Fisherman 1902 Korensky.jpg
context_page_description: Walkabout is a rite of passage in Australian Aboriginal society, during which males undergo a journey during adolescence, typically ages 10 to 16, and live in the wilderness for a period as long as six months to make the spiritual and traditional transition into manhood.
context_section_description: The term "walkabout" has been used to characterise Indigenous Australians as highly mobile over the short-term.
  In the case of Aboriginal Australians, life-cycle stages, such as traditional rites of passage, seem to influence the motivations for movement more than the frequency of movement.  But non-Aboriginal employers did not fully understand the abrupt leaving and returning as a valid reason for missing work. The reasons for leaving may be more mundane than originally thought: workers who wanted or needed to attend a ceremony or visit relatives did not accept employers' control over such matters.
caption: A young man using a fish trap, an example of a more sedentary life rather than a nomadic one.
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