Pintupi country, pintupi self
Subtitle: sentiment, place, and politics among western desert aborigines
By: Fred R. Myers.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Pintubi (Australian people); Ethnology -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.)
Description: The Pintupi, a hunting-and-gathering people of Australia's Western Desert, were among the last Aborigines to come into contact with white society. Despite their extended relocation in central Australian settlements, they have managed to preserve much of their traditional culture and social organization. This book presents a comprehensive ethnographic interpretation of the ways in which Pintupi politics, cosmology, kinship systems, nomadic patterns, and social values reinforce and sometimes contradict each other.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-321) and index.
Originally published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1986. (Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry).