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.
- ISBN10 0874746906
- ISBN13 9780874746907
- Publish Date 30 September 1986
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 November 1992
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Smithsonian Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English