Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self; Sentiment, Place and Politics among Western Desert Aborigines
Smithsonian, 1986. octavo 334pp. Item #37658
The Pintupi are a hunting-gathering people of Australia's Western Desert. They were among the last Aborigines to come into contact with white society. This book presents a comprehensive ethnographic interpretation of the ways in which Pintupi politics, cosmology, kinship systems, nomadic patterns and social valuers reinforce and sometimes contradict each other.
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