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The Pintupi, a hunting-and-gathering people of Australia's Western Desert, were among the last Aborigines to come into contact with white society. Despite their extended relocation in central Australian settlements, they have managed to preserve much of their traditional culture and social organization. This book presents a comprehensive ethnographic interpretation of the ways in which Pintupi politics, cosmology, kinship systems, nomadic patterns, and social values reinforce and sometimes contradict each other.
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Fred R. Myers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University.
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"This is the most important publication in Aboriginal anthropology since Mervyn Meggitt's "Desert People appeared in 1962. Like Meggitt's book it is a major ethnography but the approach is quite different. In place of structural-functionalism we have the first complete cultural analysis of Aboriginal society. The result is a refreshing analysis that will broaden the ethnographic and theoretical agenda."--Nicolas Peterson, "Man
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- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0520074114
- ISBN 13 9780520074118
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages334
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