An Australian Indigenous Diaspora: Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition

by Paul Burke

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800739265
• ISBN13: 9781800739260
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"