Yuendumu Everyday: Contemporary Life in Remote Australia
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This is a highly readable examination of the nature of daily life in a remote Aboriginal community in central Australia. Evocative narratives revolve around five Warlpiri women who present insights into the cultural underpinnings of Indigenous daily life. Yuendumu Everyday gently takes the reader deep into the contradictory realities of a not-so-distant huntergatherer past, and the realities of living in a first-world nation state.
Author: Yasmine Musharbash
Format: Paperback, 272 pages, 140mm x 216mm, 339 g
Published: 2009, Aboriginal Studies Press, Australia
Genre: Sociology & Anthropology: Professional
Description
This is a highly readable examination of the nature of daily life in a remote Aboriginal community in central Australia. Evocative narratives revolve around five Warlpiri women who present insights into the cultural underpinnings of Indigenous daily life. Yuendumu Everyday gently takes the reader deep into the contradictory realities of a not-so-distant huntergatherer past, and the realities of living in a first-world nation state.
Yuendumu Everyday: Contemporary Life in Remote Australia