Altman, JonHinkson, Melinda2015-12-071359-1835http://hdl.handle.net/1885/26295This 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 theKeywords: material culture; mobility; modernity; transportation development; transportation history; trucking; Arnhem Land; Australasia; Australia; Northern Territory Aboriginal Australia; Arnhem land; Modernity; Outstations; Vehicles200710.1177/13591835070781222015-12-07