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• Title: Luritja Management of the State (Amunturrngu, Central Australian Community, Social Structure)
• Author : Oceania
• Release Date : January 01, 2005
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 214 KB

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This paper is ethnographically situated in Central Australia at a place called Amunturrngu (Mt. Liebig), where Lufitja is spoken. This settlement is neither a closed unit, nor merely an artefact of colonisation. Rather, it is a socio-political entity that is to be understood 'as an ongoing articulation between global and local processes' (Friedman 1994:12). It may be remote - 320 km west of Alice Springs - but the local articulation with the structures and representatives of the State occurs within an intimate and negotiated space. Certain modalities within this post-settlement space have been reformulated to structure a complex locality, where an Indigenous polity is emergent and contested. This polity, as an achievement in constant process, is possible because of the specific kind of place that Mt. Liebig has become, it is more than a settlement, as the dynamic relationship of long-term residents to the land on which the settlement lies has structured a shared sentimental attachment, developing it as an embodied place. (1) The aspect of this place at issue here is the realm of what is often referred to as the 'intercultural', specifically in this context the space of engagement, and conversely disengagement, with the administrative apparatus of the State including its agents. Gary Robinson, in a paper delivered in the same session as this paper at the Australian Anthropological Society conference in 2002, uses the term 'dynamic mismatch' to stress the incompatibility of the processes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous engagement with issues of governance. This term, as it emphasises agency on both sides of the engagement, highlights the core of the issues under discussion here. In this paper I provide a brief case study of this mismatch in terms that begin to explore the logic of Indigenous reaction to the locally contested issues of administration and autonomy. The theoretical tools that I use to decipher this interaction will be discussed shortly. Although at this stage these tools appear to me as foundational, this paper ultimately poses the larger question, 'how can we move beyond the focus on the reactive and ironic aspects of this Indigenous engagement and from the structuralist positioning that this entails?'

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