Doctoral Dissertation: Pintupi Places: The Structure and Meaning of Aboriginal Camps in the Western Desert

本研究将探讨澳洲猎人和觅食者（北领地基伍库拉社区的平图皮人）对露营地的认知和情感意义。它连接了文化人类学和考古学领域，并将通过增加环境（地点/营地）和身份的社会结构数据，为猎人/觅食者行为模型做出贡献。目的是确定平图皮如何“阅读”土地，感知环境的重要类别，构建对物质文化的态度和使用，以及营地内的社会关系如何在空间上表达。这项研究还将研究这些过程如何因性别而异。方法包括参与观察，结构化访谈，“旅行史”，并绘制网站，住所和存储设施。该项目将有助于考古学和文化人类学关于猎人/觅食者如何结构（和史前结构）他们对资源和环境的使用的辩论。

This project will investigate the cognitive and affective meanings of campsites among Australian hunters and foragers (the Pintupi of Kiwirrkura community, Northern Territory). It bridges the fields of Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology, and will contribute to models of hunter/forager behavior by adding data on the social constructions of the environment (place/campsites) and identity. The goal is to ascertain how Pintupi "read" the land, perceive significant categories of the environment, construct attitudes towards and uses of material culture, and how social relationships within the camp are expressed spatially. The research will examine how these process vary by gender, as well. Methods include participant observation, structured interviews, "travel histories," and mapping of sites, shelters, and storage facilities. This project will contribute to debates in both Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology regarding how hunters/foragers structure (and prehistorically structured) their use of resources and the environment.