Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self

Sentiment, Place and Politics Among Western Desert Aborigines

By: Fred R. Myers

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Paperback | 17 April 1991 | Edition Number 1

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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.

About the Author

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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