Luritja management of the state

Sarah Holcombe*

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    Abstract

    In the Central Australian community of Amunturrngu the Luritja management of the State is not only subversive to the development of representative democracy and a capitalist economy, but this discourse of (dis)engagement empowers community members. This offers autonomy, albeit marginal, from the mainstream. The 'problem of the cultural' emerges in this engagement and the production of meaning requires enunciating the 'third space' : the ambivalent space of the cultural interface. Within this post-settlement space certain modalities have been reformulated to structure a complex locality that defies the reification of social structures that anthropology so readily draws. How do people operate in this space and what type of person is most active here? The theoretical tools for this examination of Amunturrngu's engagement with the State are taken from political anthropology and post-colonial theory.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)222-233
    Number of pages12
    JournalOceania
    Volume75
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2005

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