Western Desert cultural area

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Cultural area desert

The term Western Desert is in Australia used to be a cultural complex to describe in Australia, which extends over 600,000 square kilometers. This is not the name of a desert , but an area in which the Pama-Nyungan - dialect continuum Wati spoken to the dialects among other Pitjantjatjara , Luritja and Pintupi belong.

area

The Western Desert includes the Gibson Desert , Great Victoria Desert , Great Sand Desert and Small Sand Desert in the Australian states of Northern Territory , South Australia and Western Australia . The cultural region is delimited by the Nullarbor Desert in the south and the Kimberly region in the north. Most of those who speak the Wati language live near their traditional lands around Kalgoorlie , Laverton , Alice Springs , Port Augusta , Meekatharra , Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing .

Settlements

In the rural Western Desert, the Aborigines have built up settlements where they can live largely according to their cultural and social traditions. A complete list of the Anangus settlements can be found here. Some of the Aboriginal settlements in the Western Desert are located in the federal states:

literature

  • Ronald M. Bendt: The concept of 'The Tribe' in the Western Desert of Australia. Oceania, 30 (2), 1959, pp. 81-107.
  • S. Davenport, P. Johnson, Y. Nixon: Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert. Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005, ISBN 0-85575-457-5 .
  • Laurent Dusset: Assimilating Identities: Social Networks and the Diffusion of Sections. (= Oceania Monographs 57). Sydney 2005, ISBN 1-86487-741-3 .
  • Margaret Morgan: Mt Margaret: A Drop in a Bucket. Mission Publications of Australia, Lawson, NSW 1999, ISBN 0-646-34220-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. List of the settlements of the Anangu Aborigines ( Memento from February 19, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )

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