Golden dreams: place and mining in the Tanami desert

dc.contributor.author	Elias, Derek J
dc.date.accessioned	2011-06-20T01:35:15Z
dc.date.available	2011-06-20T01:35:15Z
dc.date.created	2001-01
dc.date.issued	2011-06-20
dc.description.abstract	The Tanami Desert is classed as a semi-desert and covers a large area of land in the central-west of the Northern Territory of Australia as well as a much smaller area of the north-east of Western Australia. The majority of the Tanami Desert has been inhabited by Warlpiri speaking Aboriginal peoples for thousands of years; in their terminology from time immemorial since the creative period, or jukurrpa, that transformed the world from a featureless mass to the form it is today. For Walpiri the landscape of the Tanami Desert is covered with places that mark the events and histories of the extraordinary beings and ancestors of the jukurrpa whose essences remain in these places, the land and the worlds above and below the surface of the earth ......	en_AU
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1885/7496
dc.language.iso	en_AU	en_AU
dc.subject	Land tenure, Warlpiri, royalty payments, Tanami desert, aborigines,	en_AU
dc.title	Golden dreams: place and mining in the Tanami desert	en_AU
dc.type	Thesis (PhD)	en_AU
dcterms.valid	2001	en_AU
local.contributor.affiliation	Department of Archaeology and Anthropology	en_AU
local.contributor.supervisor	Peterson, Nicolas
local.description.notes	Supervisor - Professor Nicolas Peterson	en_AU
local.description.refereed	Yes	en_AU
local.type.degree	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)	en_AU