Mobility and modernity in Arnhem Land: The social universe of Kuninjku trucks.

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2007

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Altman, Jon
Hinkson, Melinda

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Sage Publications Inc

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This article explores the central role played by vehicles in a contradictory set of social processes that have unfolded in western Arnhem Land, north Australia, over the last five decades. Motor vehicles have mediated much of humanity's experience of the

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Keywords: material culture; mobility; modernity; transportation development; transportation history; trucking; Arnhem Land; Australasia; Australia; Northern Territory Aboriginal Australia; Arnhem land; Modernity; Outstations; Vehicles

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Journal of Material Culture

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Journal article

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2037-12-31