An Australian Indigenous Diaspora
Subtitle: Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jul 27, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781785333880
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: An Australian Indigenous Diaspora: Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition