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Title

Dystopia in the desert: : the silent culture of Australia's remotest aboriginal communities / Tadhgh Purtill.

Author

Purtill, Tadhgh

Publication

• Victoria : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2016.
• North Melbourne, Victoria Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2017.
• ©2017

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Description

xv, 267 pages : black and white illustrations, map, charts; 23 cm.

Summary

"This study, written by a former community manager, is the first of its kind. It lays bare the strange ways of the Ngaanyatjarra region. It takes in psychological, economic, political and anthropological aspects of the community system, and reveals a self-sustaining and possibly unreformable situation. The region, the author claims, has surpassed the merely 'dysfunctional', it has become a disturbing independent society, characterised by a negative coherency and a dystopian functionality. This is an in-depth look at the odd and alternative world of Australia's Western Desert." --Publisher description.

Alternative Title

Silent culture of Australia's remotest Aboriginal communities.

Subject

• Aboriginal Australians > Warburton > Social life and customs
• Aboriginal Australians > Warburton > Social conditions
• Ngaanyatjarra (Australian people) > Services for > 21st century
• Aboriginal Australians > Australia, Central > 21st century
• Communities > Australia, Central > 21st century
• Community life > Australia, Central > 21st century
• Ngaanyatjarra (Australian people) > Social conditions > 21st century
• Ngaanyatjarra (Australian people) > Economic conditions > 21st century
• Ngaanyatjarra (Australian people) > Social life and customs > 21st century
• Deserts > Western Australia

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 1925333868
• 9781925333862

OCLC

962125731

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Harvard Library