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Walkabout
Walkabout refers to a Rite of passage during which male Australian Aboriginals would undergo a journey during adolescence and live in the wilderness for a period as long as six months to make the transition into manhood as a deeply spiritual awakening. This transtionary period typically takes place between the ages of 10 to 16. In this practice, they would trace the paths, or "song lines", that their ancestors took before them, and imitate their heroic deeds. Merriam-Webster identifies the noun as a 1908 coinage referring to "a short period of wandering bush life engaged in by an Australian Aborigine as an occasional interruption of regular work", with the only mention of "spiritual journey" coming in a usage example from a latter-day travel writer.Temporal mobility, as Walkabout has come to be known, alters the entirety of one’s life. One of the purposes of going on walkabout was a form of sacred travel; a method of fulfilling obligations to ancestors or in an attempt to connect with traditional land.〔
== What Is Walkabout? ==
The term ‘walkabout’ is commonly used to characterize Indigenous people as highly mobile over the short-term, and such movement is regularly constructed as problematic for mainstream institutions such as health care and housing programs. In the case of Indigenous Australia, life-cycle stages, such as traditional rites of passage, seem to influence the motivations for movement more than the frequency of movement.
Common educational literature obtained through research clearly identified a peak in temporary mobility amongst young adults. This is the period of life when many Indigenous youth are exploring and contesting their identities in relation to the state and their cultural context to their traditional ties. The peak of mobility in young adults in Australia is tied to the traditional rite of passage of walkabout, for young adulthood is the time in which aboriginal youth would be taking walkabout to make the transition into adulthood.
But to non-aboriginal employers who did not fully understand the abrupt leaving and returning as a valid reason for missing work. The reasons for leaving may be more mundane than originally thought: workers who wanted or needed to attend a ceremony or visit relatives did not accept employers' control over such matters.〔
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