ABSTRACT
This chapter presents one long weekend of activity in the town of Alice Springs, central Australia. This isolated, unique, arid land town is located in Aboriginal territories, 1,500 km from the nearest city. As narrator, the author's alter ego recounts incidents in local life and death. This is a case history and a history of events depicting relationships between Aboriginal families. Hunger is a daily concern for many Aboriginal people. This selection follows a thread of food, allowing to introduce the idea of cultural cannibalism - the experience many of us have within Aboriginal territories, of being entrapped in a muddled yet relentless enculturating drive by both people to incorporate the other. Australia, once the most rebellious young country, has reconstructed itself into the most regulated bureaucratic nation under democratic governance in the world.
