administration, 18
see also Yuendumu Council
adultery (extra-marital sexual relations), 49–50, 96
afternoon activities, 114
age
women and food distribution, 123
Alice Springs, 22
when sleeping, 44, 55, 106, 108
ancestral place, 34
birds, 81
assimilation policy, 37–8
autonomy (boss for oneself), 96, 144, 146, 147
see also aloneness
Bachelard, Gaston, 2–4, 7, 27, 35, 97
bad news, 80
announcement of marriage and, 51
putting out at night, 82–3, 106
see also sleeping places and arrangements
early day houses, 21
Western-style living, 37
Belyuen women, 128
cruising to and from, 114, 125, 126
donations for mortuary rituals, 120–1
hithering and thithering to and from, 129
birds, 81
boss for oneself, see autonomy
Bourdieu, Pierre, 8, 27, 95, 96, 110
boys resident in jilimi, 64, 68, 70
sleeping arrangements, 84–5, 86, 87–8, 98–9, 101
breakfast, 115–23
building–dwelling–thinking theory (Heidegger), 4–6, 95, 151–7
anthropological literature and, 26–7
ngurra, 33–6
building materials, 36, 37, 38
butter, 133
hithering and thithering to and from, 129
camps, 20–2, 28–36, 40–5, 154–5
anthropological use of term ‘household’, 60
jarnpa detected near, 81
Napperby, 121–3
residents’ day time activity, 112–38
see also gendered camps
card games, 127
cars and car travel, 10–11, 22–3, 86, 90
firewood collection, 132, 136–7
hithering and thithering, 127–32
telling distance, 35
CDEP, 134–5
ceremonies, 35
damper production and distribution, 119
mortuary rituals (sorry business), 17, 61, 119–21, 147
girls’ first marriage, 47–8, 49
children resident in jilimi, 52, 61–2, 69
core residents, 64
sleeping arrangements, 84–5, 86–8, 98–9, 101
see also boys resident in jilimi
firewood collection during, 132, 133–5
winds at seasonal change, 79–80
‘concertina household’, 60
core jilimi residents, 13–17, 57–8, 63, 64–5
council, see Yuendumu Council
country, 35
countryman, 34–5
cruising, 124–7
damper, 115–23
daytime activity, 112–38
sexual, 96
death, 80
marriage and, 48
mortuary rituals (sorry business), 17, 61, 119–21, 147
decisions to go hunting, 128–32
demand sharing, 60, 73, 133–5, 144–5
dinner time, 114
divorce (termination of marriage), 49, 50, 51–2
domestic space, 26–8
methodological distinction between social practice relating to space and, 60–1
Moore’s proposal to read as text, 27–8, 45, 77, 82
Robben’s analysis, 28, 45, 151–2
spatial uses during different times of day, 112–13
see also building–dwelling–thinking theory;
houses;
jilimi;
marriage;
sleeping places and arrangements
dreams, see world views
Dussart, F, 47
dwellings, see building–dwelling–thinking theory;
houses
marriage, 48
East Camp, see Camps
Joy, 85–6
see also social security payments
entry into yarlu space, 42–3
families and social relationships, 12–17, 34–5, 139–49
breakfast seating arrangements, 116
daytime activities, 124–32
firewood collection and, 132, 133–7
jilimi residents, 57–8, 64–74;
sleeping arrangements, 84–94, 101–9
mortuary ritual distributions, 119–21
Westerners’ concept of houses f or, 36–7
see also autonomy;
marriage
fences, 42
at breakfast, 115–17, 118, 119, 122
firewood, 132–7
flour, 117–21
butter, 133
hunting trips, 127–32
frail people, see old people
gambling, 127
gendered camps, 32–3, 40, 52, 68, 96–7
damper for, 117–18
see also jilimi;
yupukarra
Goodale, JC, 122–3
see also sedentisation
government-provided housing, see houses
government ration depots, 18, 25
grandmothers, 52, 64, 69, 70, 107
paternal (yaparla), 66, 69, 98–9, 101, 104, 139
Heidegger, Martin, 27
see also building–dwelling–thinking theory
Heppel, M, 38–9
Hinkson, MJ, 20
historical past, 8–9, 17–22, 25
government policies, 37–9
see also early days;
olden days;
sedentisation
hithering and thithering, 127–32
home, 34
hot weather, 78
house, in jilimi, 53–7
sleeping inside, 68–9, 78–81, 91–2
sleeping on verandah/outside, 78–81, 84–7
taramaguti, 122–3
houses, 1–7, 26–8, 36–45, 139–57
spatial uses during different times of day, 113
see also rooms
hunting trips, 127–32
immediacy, 11, 36, 77–94, 146–7
during day, 138
literary device used to convey, 10
India, 147
indirectness in interaction, 145–6
initiation, 68
marriage promises, 48–9
Inner West Camp, see Camps
institutions and organisations (infrastructure), 18, 20, 25, 158–62
integration policy, 38
intimacy, 11–12, 36, 44, 91, 95–111
Bachelard’s conceptualisation, 3, 35, 97
obliqueness and, 145–6
Jackson, M, 21
jangkayi (men’s camps), 32–3, 40, 52, 68, 96–7
damper for, 118
jarnpa, 80–1
jilimi, 13–17, 32–3, 40, 46–111
breakfast time, 115–19
daytime activities, 126–7
firewood, 135–7
ngurra, 34
‘The Kabyle House or the World Reversed’, 27
Kendon, A, 145–7
Kenya, 27
kinship, see families and social relationships
kulkurru and yitipi, 29, 31–2, 81
when people leave after yunta set up, 43–4
Kulkurru Camp, see Camps
kurdaitcha, 80–1
‘language of indeterminacy’, 128
Laramba, 121–3
levirate, 48
lunchtime, 114
Madigan, R & M Munro, 112–13
marriage and marital status, 47–52
jilimi residents, 57, 66, 67–70
Tamsin and family, 139–40, 142
see also yupukarra
matriarchs, 122–3
memories, see world views
resident in jilimi, 52, 68–9, 72
see also boys resident in jilimi;
jangkayi
‘mob’ formation, 141
mobility, 10–11, 36, 59–76, 140–1, 147–9
during day, 112–38
marriage and, 49
see also cars and car travel
moieties (subsection system), 12, 35, 142, 143
money, 60
see also social security payments
Moore, Henrietta, 27–8, 45, 77, 82
Morgan, LH, 26
morning activities, 113–14, 115–23
mortuary rituals (sorry business), 17, 61, 119–21, 147
Munn, ND, 21
Munro, M & R Madigan, 112–13
Napperby, 121–3
Nayaka, 147
negotiations
breakfast seating arrangements, 116
firewood collection, 132
marriages arranged through, 48
ngurra-jarra, 35
ngurra-jinta, 34
ngurra-kurlarni-nyarra, 35
ngurra-kurra yanirlipa, 34
ngurra-ngajuku, 34
ngurra-wardingki, 35
ngurra-yatuju-mparra, 35
ngurra-yuntuyuntu, 34
ngurrarntija, 35
see also sleeping places and arrangements
North Camp, see Camps
obliqueness in interaction, 145–6
old people, 126–7
firewood collection for, 132, 135
sleeping arrangements, 81–2, 84–5, 86–7, 109
Old People’s Program, 24, 132, 161
on-and-off jilimi residents, 63, 66–70, 71–2, 73
organisations and institutions, 18, 20, 25, 158–62
orientation, 41
camps, 32;
moieties during rituals, 35
Outline of a Theory of Practice, 8
ownership of firewood, 135–7
ownership of flour, 118–21
ownership of rooms, 54–7
paternal grandmother (yaparla), 66, 69, 98–9, 101, 104, 139
patrimoieties (subsection system), 12, 35, 142, 143
see also social security payments
pensions, see social security payments
performative kinship, 142–4
personal networks, see families and social relationships
Peterson, N, 134
The Poetics of Space (Bachelard), 2–4, 7, 27, 35, 97
religious affiliation, 159–60
sleepers in jilimi, 61–3
Povinelli, EA, 128
pre-contact times, see olden days
yarlu, yunta and yalka space, 42–3
see also aloneness;
public/private boundaries, separation of
private negotiations, see negotiations
public/private boundaries, separation of, 36–7, 54–7, 96
firewood, 135–7
flour, 119–21
see also privacy;
yarlu
rain, 78–9
regular jilimi residents, 63, 69, 71
relationships, see families and social relationships
‘residential group’, 75
ritual division (subsection system), 12, 35, 142, 143
rituals, see ceremonies
roads, see cars and car travel
Bachelard’s conceptualisation, 3
in jilimi house, 53–7
spatial uses during different times of day, 113
in transitional housing, 38
see also bedrooms
Sanders, W, 19
sandstorms, 80
Scotland, 113
seating arrangements at breakfast, 116
sedentisation, 6, 9, 17–18, 155
changes in social practices since, 46–52
see also early days
self-determination policy, 39
see also marriage
shop, see Big Shop
single people’s camps, see jangkayi;
jilimi
sleeping places and arrangements, 15, 41, 145
houses with different camps located in and around, 40
ngurra, 34
relationship of daytime activity and restfulness of, 112
see also bedrooms;
kulkurru and yitipi;
yunta
social security (welfare) payments, 18, 19, 157
marriage and, 49
sociality, see families and social relationships
sorry business (mortuary rituals), 17, 61, 119–21, 147
South Camp, see Camps
Space, Text and Gender (Moore), 27–8, 45, 77, 82
sporadic jilimi residents, 63, 67, 72
staged (transitional) housing, 21, 37–8
state-provided housing, see houses
stopping, 74
storage, 133–5
subsection system, 12, 35, 142, 143
suburban houses, see houses
summer, 78–9
Tanami Road, 22–3
taramaguti, 122–3
thinking, see world views
thunderstorms, 79
time, 35
time sleeping in jilimi, 61, 62–74, 100
sleeping positions and companions, 101–2, 106–9;
author’s, 90–2
time zoning, 112–38
Tiwi Islands, 122–3
Toyotas, see cars and car travel
transitional housing, 21, 37–8
see also social security payments
unmarried people’s camps, see jangkayi;
jilimi
Verdon, M, 75
see also social security payments
Warlpiri Media Association, 156, 158–9
welfare payments, see social security payments
West Camp, see Camps
westerly orientation, see east-west orientation
Western-style houses, see houses
windbreaks, see yunta
winter, see cold weather
women’s camps, see jilimi
world views (thinking), 3–6, 26–7, 155–7
see also building–dwelling–thinking theory
Yanagisako, SJ, 60
yaparla (paternal grandmother), 66, 69, 98–9, 101, 104, 139
sleeping in, 41, 78–81, 84–6, 87
yitipi, see kulkurru and yitipi
Young, EA, 19
Yuendumu Big Shop, see Big Shop
Yuendumu Council, 18, 20, 25, 132
community houses built by, 151, 152–3
staff houses, 22
yunta, 41, 43–4, 54–5, 115, 144
at Napperby (Laramba), 122
sand story iconography, 36
see also sleeping places and arrangements
yupukarra (married people’s camps), 40, 47, 51, 52, 53, 96–7
damper production, 117–18
in jilimi, 68–9