Lost in translation? Remote Indigenous households and definitions of the family

This paper focuses on the responses to the questions designed to elicit information about family and household structure. These data are supplemented by genealogical information that I collected in the course of independent anthropological fieldwork. Details have been altered slightly so that no actual household is represented. n August 2001, I observed the conduct of the national census at a remote outstation community in the Northern Territory. Because the community is small and its residents would be readily identifiable (at least locally) if it were named, the area in which this case study took place is deliberately left vague and the community is referred to as ‘Community A’.