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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Reimagining Home in the 21st Century |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. |
Pages | 72-86 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781786432933 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781786432926 |
Publication status | Published - 24 Feb 2017 |