Dystopia in the desert : the silent culture of Australia's remotest Aboriginal communities / Tadhgh Purtill.
Publication details: North Melbourne, Victoria : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2017.Description: xv, 267 pages : illustrations, map, charts ; 23 cmISBN:- 1925333868
- 9781925333862
- Silent culture of Australia's remotest Aboriginal communities
- 2000-2099
- Social problems -- Western Australia -- Ngaanyatjarra Lands
- Public administration -- Western Australia -- Ngaanyatjarra Lands
- Communities -- Western Australia -- Ngaanyatjarra Lands
- Communities -- Australia -- Western Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Politics and government
- Community organization -- Western Australia -- Ngaanyatjarra Lands
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Ngaanyatjarra Lands -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Ngaanyatjarra Lands -- Social life and customs
- Deserts -- Western Australia
- Ngaanyatjarra (Australian people) -- Services for -- 21st century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- 21st century
- Communities -- Australia, Central -- 21st century
- Community life -- Australia, Central -- 21st century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Warburton -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Warburton -- Social life and customs
- Ngaanyatjarra (Australian people) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
- Ngaanyatjarra (Australian people) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Ngaanyatjarra (Australian people) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia
- Community life -- Australia -- Western Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Warburton (W.A.) -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Warburton (W.A.) -- Social life and customs
- Ngaanyatjarra (Australian people) -- Services for
- Community life -- Western Australia -- Ngaanyatjarra Lands -- 21st century
- Ngaanyatjarra (Australian people)
- Deserts -- Australia -- Western Australia
- Politics and Government - Governance
- Socioeconomic conditions
- Community organisations
- Culture
- Ngaanyatjarra people (A38) (WA SG51-08)
- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Milyirrtjarra / Warburton (Central WA SG52-09)
- Warburton (W.A.)
- Western Desert (W.A.)
- Australian
- 305.89915 23
- DU125.N45 P87 2017
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 305.899 PUR | Available | 067338 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261) and index.
Part I: Complexity and dysfunction -- Part II: Community governance, management and staff -- Part III: The operational culture and environment -- Part IV: The dystopia in the desert.
"The Ngaanyatjarra Lands, deep in Western Australia, are home to the country?s most remote Aboriginal communities. Beset by social problems, the communities and their residents are detached from mainstream Australia by factors of distance and culture. But the Ngaanyatjarra region remains obscure for other reasons. Its peculiar operational culture, which arises from the curious relationship between community members and whitefella staff, has become almost impossible for mainstream Australians ? including bureaucrats and academics ? to understand. This study, written by a former community manager, is the first of its kind. It lays bare the strange ways of the Ngaanyatjarra region. It takes in psychological, economic, political and anthropological aspects of the community system, and reveals a self-sustaining and possibly unreformable situation. The region, the author claims, has surpassed the merely ?dysfunctional?: it has become a disturbing independent society, characterised by a negative coherency and a dystopian functionality. This is an in-depth look at the odd and alternative world of Australia?s Western Desert." -- Back cover.
