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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Yuendumu Everyday: Contemporary life in remote Aboriginal Australia

Yuendumu Everyday: Contemporary life in remote Aboriginal Australia

Musharbash, Yasmine

Paperback

Australia & OceaniaAnthropologyIndigenous Studies

ISBN10: 0855756616
ISBN13: 9780855756611
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Published: Jan 1 2009
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Yuendumu everyday explores intimacy, immediacy and mobility as the core principles underpinning contemporary everyday life in a central Australian Aboriginal settlement. It analyses an everyday shaped through the interplay between a not so distant hunter gatherer past and the realities of living in a first-world nation state by considering such apparently mundane matters as: What is a camp? How does that relate to houses? Who sleeps where, and next to whom? Why does this constantly change? What and where are the public/private boundaries? And most importantly: How do Indigenous people in praxis relate to each other? Employing a refreshingly readable writing style, Musharbash includes rich vignettes, including narrative portraits of five Warlpiri women. Musharbash's descriptions and analyses of their actions and the situations in which they find themselves transcend the general and illuminate the personal. She invites readers to ponder the questions raised by the book, not just at an abstract level, but as they relate to people's actual lives. In doing so, readers will expand their understandings of Indigenous Australia.

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