An Australian Indigenous diaspora : Warlpiri matriarchs and the refashioning of tradition /

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 W...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Burke, Paul, 1956- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Berghahn Books, [2018]
Subjects:	Warlpiri (Australian people) > Social life and customs. Women, Aboriginal Australian > Social life and customs. Aboriginal Australians > Migrations. Migration, Internal > Australia.

Table of Contents:

Origins of the Warlpiri Diaspora
"Getting Away": Reasons and Pathways
Making Alice Springs a Warlpiri Place
Warlpiri Women of Adelaide
Ambivalent Homecomings and the Politics of Home and Away.