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

An Australian Indigenous Diaspora: Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 185 An Australian Indigenous Diaspora: Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition PAUL BURKE Oxford and New York, Berghahn, 2018 Paul Burke undertook the field research on which this book is based in the years 2009– 13. He was already familiar with many Warlpiri people of Central Australia from 10 years’ experience as a legal aid and land council lawyer in Alice Springs. He had Warl- piri friends and acquaintances. After a decade he retreated to a ‘less intense’ experience in Canberra with family, but remained attuned to Warlpiri and Central Australian issues. In the 1990s he heard of Warlpiri living in Murray Bridge, South Australia, and began to wonder how such an outpost had sprung up. In some sense, the project that eventually resulted in this book, An Australian Indigenous Diaspora: Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition, was born. We regularly hear that there are now many more indigenous-identifying people in cities and towns than in remote areas and communities—roughly 80 per cent in cities and 20 per cent in remote areas. But as any demographer will readily tell you, figures like these are aggregate and to understand the social processes http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

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

Merlan, Francesca
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology , Volume 21 (2): 6 – Mar 14, 2020
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An Australian Indigenous Diaspora: Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 185 An Australian Indigenous Diaspora: Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition PAUL BURKE Oxford and New York, Berghahn, 2018 Paul Burke undertook the field research on which this book is based in the years 2009– 13. He was already familiar with many Warlpiri people of Central Australia from 10 years’ experience as a legal aid and land council lawyer in Alice Springs. He had Warl- piri friends and acquaintances....
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2019 Francesca Merlan
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1740-9314
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1444-2213
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10.1080/14442213.2019.1681702
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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 185 An Australian Indigenous Diaspora: Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition PAUL BURKE Oxford and New York, Berghahn, 2018 Paul Burke undertook the field research on which this book is based in the years 2009– 13. He was already familiar with many Warlpiri people of Central Australia from 10 years’ experience as a legal aid and land council lawyer in Alice Springs. He had Warl- piri friends and acquaintances. After a decade he retreated to a ‘less intense’ experience in Canberra with family, but remained attuned to Warlpiri and Central Australian issues. In the 1990s he heard of Warlpiri living in Murray Bridge, South Australia, and began to wonder how such an outpost had sprung up. In some sense, the project that eventually resulted in this book, An Australian Indigenous Diaspora: Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition, was born. We regularly hear that there are now many more indigenous-identifying people in cities and towns than in remote areas and communities—roughly 80 per cent in cities and 20 per cent in remote areas. But as any demographer will readily tell you, figures like these are aggregate and to understand the social processes

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology – Taylor & Francis

Published: Mar 14, 2020

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