'Country', 'community' and 'growth town': Three spatio-temporal snapshots of Warlpiri experiences of home

Yasmine Musharbash*

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    Abstract

    This chapter focuses on three snapshots of experiencing home across time to sketch some of the drastic changes Warlpiri ways of being-in-the-world have undergone over the past 100 years or so. The bulk of this chapter is an abbreviated version of Chapter 2 of Yuendumu Everyday (Musharbash 2008), my ethnography of everyday life at Yuendumu, a Warlpiri commu-nity on the fringes of the Tanami Desert, about 300 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs. Yuendumu Everyday draws on participant observation-based data I acquired during anthropological research spanning from 1998 to 2002, and this chapter is first concerned with pre-contact camps and camps during the era of self-determination. In the final section of the chapter, I add material from research I undertook since the publication of Yuendumu Everyday to update on developments from the here and now of intense policy intervention.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationReimagining Home in the 21st Century
    PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
    Pages72-86
    Number of pages15
    ISBN (Electronic)9781786432933
    ISBN (Print)9781786432926
    Publication statusPublished - 24 Feb 2017

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