Walkabout
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Walkabout is term dating to the pastoral era in which large numbers of Aboriginal Australians were employed on cattle stations. During the tropical wet season, when there was little work on the stations, many would return to their traditional life on country. It was also used to describe unexplained absences of any kind. This was commonly treated as the product of a nomadic predisposition to wander aimlessly.[1] [2] [3]
Temporary mobility[edit]
"Temporary mobility" is a neutral term covering various forms of movement from place to place, without the specific connotations of "walkabout". Young Indigenous adults have the highest mobility rate of all age groups in Australia; males make up the majority.[4]
See also[edit]
- Australian Aboriginal culture
- Walkabout, a 1971 film based on a book of the same name
- The Songlines, a book combining fiction and non-fiction by writer Bruce Chatwin
- Australian Walkabout, television series
References[edit]
- ^ o'Kane, Michael (2013). "Project MUSE - Laws, Customs, and Practices in Australian Native Title". Collaborative Anthropologies. 6: 334–352. doi:10.1353/cla.2013.0013.
- ^ Peterson, Nicolas (2003). Myth of the “walkabout”. Routledge. ISBN 9780203464786.
- ^ Prout, S. (2008). "On the move? Indigenous temporary mobility practices in Australia". Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (48). ISBN 0 7315 4947 3. ISSN 1442-3871. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
- ^ Bell, Martin; Ward, Gary (1 January 2000). "Comparing temporary mobility with permanent migration". Tourism Geographies. 2 (1): 87–107. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.584.6777. doi:10.1080/146166800363466. ISSN 1461-6688.