Full 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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Origins of the Warlpiri Diaspora
Chapter 2. 'Getting Away': Reasons and Pathways
Chapter 3. Making Alice Springs a Warlpiri Place
Chapter 4. Warlpiri Women of Adelaide
Chapter 5. Ambivalent Homecomings and the Politics of Home and Away
Conclusion
References
Index
