Terms such as society, habitus, and culture can all too easily obscure the lifeworlds they are supposed to cover, and we must continually remind ourselves that social life is lived at the interface ofselfand other (Michael Jackson 1998:35) BACKGROUND Earlier versions of the papers collected here were presented at the 2002 meeting of the Australian Anthropological Society at the Australian National University in Canberra, in a session titled 'Articulating Cultures? Understanding Engagements between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Lifeworlds'.' The session's call for papers noted the increasing entanglement of Indigenous and non-Indigenous lifeworlds, and anthropology's apparent difficulty in making these 'intercultural' circumstances analytically tractable. Our hope was that the papers presented in this session would contribute to debates which have been unfolding in anthropology over several decades -but with renewed intensity since the late 1980s -over the applicability of the concepts of distinct domains, cultures and societies in the face of increasingly complex articulations within and across particular social groups. The ethnographic focus of the present collection is confined to northern, north-western and central Australia. In this sense the collection attempts to bring analytic focus to bear on a particular quandary: on the one hand 'remote Australia' continues to be conceived as a context marked by cultural difference between Indigenous and non-Indigenous lifeworlds. At the same time this 'remote' context, and the 'different' life-ways apparent within it, have become increasingly enmeshed both with wider Australian society and a globalised world. The question of how to conceptualise such difference-yet relatedness within an increasingly expanding social field is as crucial a challenge for accounts of 'Indigenous Australia' as it is for anthropological studies located elsewhere.Recent debate around the continuing utility of the culture concept has been critical of earlier approaches to situations of 'difference-yet-relatedness' (see inter alia Abu-Lughod 1991; Barofsky 1994;Brumann 1999; Keesing 1974;Trouillot 2003;Yengoyan 1986). Yet such critiques often overlook the fact that conceptualisation of difference-yet-relatedness was a concern (albeit a marginal one) in early anthropological accounts (see Brightman 1995). In this sense it seems that the history of anthropology can be read as a process, a Oceania 75, 2005 157 Introduction series of incremental moves towards an intercultural analysis.' The intention of this collection is to contribute to this ongoing development of the intercultural analysis of Indigenous Australia. The authors do not share a clearly demarcated conceptual approach. Rather, they draw upon a diversity of theoretical perspectives and speak to a range of issues. They are, however, broadly united in an attempt to shift analysis of the 'intercultural' away from an emphasis on an 'interface' between separately conceived domains,' and towards an approach that considers Indigenous and...

This review brings anthropological accounts of place and placemaking into dialogue with the concepts of precarity and precariousness. In recent years, precarity has become a widespread empirical and theoretical concern across the humanities. The article traces the simultaneous rise alongside precarity of network and ontology as post-place-based frameworks for anthropological analysis. Although these new frames facilitate anthropological explorations in the spirit of the times, this review argues that both network and ontology lack the capacity to identify what is being transformed and what is at stake when and where precarity takes hold. To see models of placemaking as spaces of transformative possibility requires an account of coexisting, qualitatively distinctive forms of relationship to places.

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This article reports on the operation of the Pintupi Anmatyerre Warlpiri radio network, established by the Warlpiri Media Association in the north‐west of Central Australia in late 2001. It traces the history out of which the network emerged and considers the distinctive approach taken to broadcasting by a group of young Warlpiri women. In exploring the on‐air invocation of particular forms of social relations, I argue that radio has come to play an important role in facilitating expressions of Warlpiri sociality across an expanding social field. At once a driver of social transformation and the transcendence of localism, as well as the glue that might bind people to each other in a changing world, the activity occurring around the Warlpiri Media Association provides a window onto the multiple challenges and choices faced by Warlpiri people in the present. This article is most particularly interested in how Warlpiri youth are negotiating these challenges and choices. The final section considers whether this new radio network might be understood in terms of the emergence of a new public sphere.

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