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From the vantage point of the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek in Australia, this book examines the practical partnerships and awkward alliances that constitute Indigenous modernities. It is an ethnographic snapshot of the Warumungu people as they engage with a range of interlocutors, including transnational railroad companies, national mining groups, international tourists, and regional businesses. Although the Warumungu are the traditional owners of the country in and around present day Tennant Creek, the history of white settlement and Aboriginal displacement has made this town, for better and worse, a site for the ongoing process of interdependent community-making. Anthropologist Kimberly Christen examines both the colonial past and the contemporary practices of alliance-making that set the stage for an alternative future, rerouting the national and global narratives that still seek to confine Indigenous people to the margins. Warumungu "mobs"--variously connected and shifting sets of kin--actively seek to carve out a space within a nation that both condemns and celebrates them.

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Christen is adjunct instructor in the Religious Studies Department at Arizona State University. She received an M.A. in religious studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has conducted research in Australia.
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This is an important book that has much to offer a wide range of readers. For those interested in indigenous media production, in forms of indigenous representation, in forms of intercultural corporation and negotiation, as well as for those interested in the consequences of recognition and those critically rethinking the consequences and misrepresentations of much neoliberal argument in Australia, Aboriginal Business is a valuable work. --Daniel Fischer, Museum Anthropology Review, Fall 2010

This smart and timely book explores the relationships between the Warumungu society of north-central Australia and their non-Aboriginal neighbors in the region of Tennant Creek. Using the concept of business, which in Aboriginal English usually refers to ritual activity, Christen discusses Aboriginal formal organizations, railroads, mining, tourism, and cultural production to establish the point that indigenous people do not live in isolation and the modern and traditional are not mutually exclusive identities. This is quite a brilliant piece of anthropological research. . . . Kimberly Christen appreciates and clearly depicts that the authentic Aboriginal experience includes the foreign and the modern. . . . The days of cultural isolation are over for indigenous peoples, and anthropology must accommodate, and has accommodated, this fact. --Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database, March 2010

A richly textured portrait of Aboriginal business in central Australia that warrants close reading by scholars and students of indigenous settler relations around the globe. Christen's fine monograph illustrates that beautiful writing and thoughtful analysis serve anthropology well. All graduate students of indigenous settler relations should read this book as a model to emulate. --Jeff Collmann, American Anthropologist, Vol. 113, no. 3

Explores the ways in which Warumungu people from the Tennant Creek region go about the business of engaging with and building alliances with others. Christen's book is a welcome contribution which offers both new material on, and fresh conceptual insights into, contemporary Indigenous Australian experiences. --Jackie Gould, Australian Journal of Anthropology: 22.1

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