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190 Book Reviews caring and looking after than in what the dominant society tends to define as liveli- hood activity per se, with some exception made for painting. Further, as Burke points out, Pearson’s notion of ‘orbiting’ really accepts notions of radical domain sep- aration (indigenous and non-indigenous) in ways that are not easily squared with ongoing transformations. Many of these are not easily objectified, but proceed as people live much of their lives away from the intensity and density of settlement com- munity, regular Warlpiri language use, and exposure to settlement ways of doing, thinking, acting. Burke distinguishes ‘first’ and ‘second’ generation diaspora; and there seems little doubt that those who live long-term distant from the density of settlement culture will be different people from those who remain. In short, this ethnographic approach to Warlpiri mobility has produced an understanding of its tendencies, conditions, per- sonalities, that we did not have before. The work validates the importance of research at dispersed sites. The ground-level approach proves its merit and does not displace but contrasts with textual and mass media focused studies and commentary on forms of indigenous mobility, transformation and interculturalism. Reference Narayan, Kirin. 1993. “How Native is