Growing up in Central Australia : new anthropological studies of aboriginal childhood and adolescence / edited by Ute Eickelkamp. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2011. - xi, 298 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-292) and index.

'Less was hidden among these children': Ga Roheim, anthropology and the politics of Aboriginal childhood / John Morton -- Envisioning lives at Ernabella / Katrina Tjitayi and Sandra Lewis -- Warungka: becoming and unbecoming a Warlpiri person / Yasmine Musharbash -- Fathers and sons, trajectories of self: reflections on Pintupi lives and futures / Fred R. Myers -- Sand storytelling: its social meaning in Anangu children's lives / Ute Eickelkamp -- Young children's social meaning making in a new mixed language / Carmel O'Shannessy -- The yard / Craig San Roque -- Organization within disorder: the present and future of young people in the Ngaanyatjarra lands / David Brooks -- Being Mardu: change and challenge for some Western Desert young people today / Myrna Tonkinson -- Invisible and visible loyalties in racialized contexts: a systematic perspective on Aboriginal youth / Marika Moisseeff.

9780857450821 (hbk.) RM267.87 0857450824 (hbk.) 9780857450838 (ebook) 0857450832 (ebook)


Children, Aboriginal Australian--Australia--Central Australia.
Adolescence--Australia--Central Australia.


Central Australia--Social conditions.