1 mere survival, mete continuance, is of interest, then the harder sorts of rocks, such as granite, have to be put near the top of the list as most successful among macroscopic entities... But the rock's way of staying in the game is diferent from the way of living things. The rock, we may ‘say, eesists change; it stays put. unchanging. The living thing escapes change either by correcting change or changing itself to meet the change or by incorporating continual change into its own being, Gary Ban, Mind ad NePintupi Country, Pintupi Self Sentiment, Place, and Politics among Western Desert Aborigines Fred R. Myers UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS esky "Los Angles = LondonFor My Parents, Bernice Myers and Robert Myers ‘eae sl Los Avot Cs © 19S nit Argh rere sp ae eee et Setistirts urchin tunaainaeiaipmehicd THERES ES Teak DSM mares Pal oc: rey Wr Tamar irs ang he sippy a Roe con fap 1) ofa narra curren Garren Cuareen 4 Cuarren 5 cnarran 6 Cuarsen 7 Charman & cnarren 9 oni Safe Cad Inder Table of Contents ast into Presen: We Ate the People from the West’ ‘The Dreaming: Time and Space Individuals and Bands Being a Countryman: Emotions and the Culeural Subject ‘The Cultural Bess of Landowneship and ls Social Implications Relatedness and Differentiation “Kinahip: Models ofthe Pintup Social Universe The Galtaral Content of Hierarchy. Politics ond Value ‘Time and the Limits of he Polity ‘Maps and Diagrams 1A. A History of Pinup Seelement 36-4 ‘Maui's Travels a Mana "Conary" SA Descenling Kinde 6X Reciprocity and Now Resiorcty Genealogy of Tops tangle YA Principles Reng Subectins 1 FaerCul omly of oboe DE Penis of Kin Clnistion Je Claacaton of Puen Cons Cousse HG Csaieatin of Close un by Tha barar JH Generational Claristion ode Cone Kin Uivese 71 Whew through te Generations ~ @ fae 2