Monstrous Transformations: A Case Study from Central Australia
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Musharbash, YasmineAbstract
My chapter is ethnographically situated in the Tanami Desert, the home of Warlpiri people and the monsters that haunt, terrorize, and sometimes kill them. Located to the northwest of the center of Australia, first contact came relatively late in this region, and over the past century the Tanami and its human and monstrous inhabitants have experienced dramatic and tumultuous changes. I explore how one particular monster, called Kurdaitcha or Jarnpa, transformed with these changes, and the meanings that flow from this realityMy chapter is ethnographically situated in the Tanami Desert, the home of Warlpiri people and the monsters that haunt, terrorize, and sometimes kill them. Located to the northwest of the center of Australia, first contact came relatively late in this region, and over the past century the Tanami and its human and monstrous inhabitants have experienced dramatic and tumultuous changes. I explore how one particular monster, called Kurdaitcha or Jarnpa, transformed with these changes, and the meanings that flow from this reality
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2014-01-01Publisher
Palgrave MacmillanCitation
Musharbash, Y. (2014). Monstrous Transformations: A Case Study from Central Australia. In Yasmine Musharbash, Geir Henning Presterudstuen (Eds.), Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond, (pp. 39-55). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.Share