Yuendumu Everyday by Musharbash, Yasmine -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS

FIGURES TABLES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTE ON SPELLING AND ORTHOGRAPHY CHAPTER 1 Everyday life in a remote Aboriginal settlement

The framework of the book Fieldwork, ethnography and key protagonists

Joy Napaljarri, ‘my first mother’ Celeste Napurrurla, ‘my sister’ Nora Napaljarri, ‘another mother’ Polly Napaljarri, ‘my mother’

Yuendumu

CHAPTER 2 Camps, houses and ngurra

Olden days’ camps

Yunta Yarlu Yalka Kulkurru and yitipi Gendered camps

Ngurra Housing policy and (not so) implicit values Yapa ways of dwelling in houses

CHAPTER 3 Transforming jilimi

Changes in marriage and the jilimi Our jilimi

The vexed issue of room ownership Polly, Nora, Celeste and Joy

CHAPTER 4 In the jilimi: mobility

Extent and volume of mobility in the jilimi

Core residents Staying with Polly: Amy Staying with Joy: Charity, Jenna and Megan Staying with Celeste: Adrian and Stella, Jemima and Angelina Staying with Nora: Sharon, Leah, Eva and Ray

Residential categories and personal networks Conclusion

CHAPTER 5 In the jilimi: immediacy

Verbal negotiations about sleeping arrangements Tacit negotiations Maps of the first nights in the jilimi and how to read them

Greta and Mabel Joy and Yasmine

Reading sleeping arrangements

CHAPTER 6 In the jilimi: intimacy

The sensuality of knowing the bodies of others Sleeping position choices and intimacy

Conclusion

CHAPTER 7 Intimacy, mobility and immediacy during the day

The daily cycle Breakfast and the importance of damper

Flour, damper, and gender Breakfast at Napperby

Daytime mobility throughout the settlement

Cruising I Cruising II Hithering and thithering

Ending the day: firewood

The social limitations on the capability to accumulate My firewood, your firewood, our firewood

Night-time, daytime and webs of sociality

CHAPTER 8 Tamsin’s fantasy

Personal networks Performative kinship Testing relationships Intimacy and obliqueness The immediacy of sociality Sociality and mobility

Conclusion

Building Dwelling Thinking

APPENDIX GLOSSARY NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX