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A World of Relationships : Itineraries, Dreams, and Events in the Australian Western Desert / Sylvie Poirier.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poirier, Sylvie, author.
- Series:
- Anthropological horizons.
- Anthropological Horizons
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Western Desert (W.A.)--Social life and customs.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Mythology, Aboriginal Australian--Australia--Western Desert (W.A.).
- Mythology, Aboriginal Australian.
- Religion--Dreaming--Australia--Western Desert (W.A.).
- Religion.
- Western Desert (W.A.)--Social life and customs.
- Western Desert (W.A.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert. The outcome of fieldwork conducted in the area in the 1980s and 1990s, it was originally published in French as Les jardins du nomade: Cosmologie, territoire et personne dans le desert occidental australien." "In her study, Sylvie Poirier explores the contemporary Aboriginal system of knowledge and law through an analysis of the relationships between the ancestral order, the 'sentient' land, and human agencies. At the ethnographical and analytical levels, particular attention is given to a range of local narratives and stories, and to the cultural construction of individual experiences."--Jacket
- Contents:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A Place like Balgo: A Story of Accommodation, Resistance, and Misunderstandings
- 2 Ancestrality, Sentient Places, and Social Spaces
- 3 Sociality, Mobility, and Composite Identity
- 4 Ways of Being, Relating, and Knowing
- 5 The Social Setting of Dreams and Dreaming
- 6 Ritual Vitality and Mobility
- Conclusion: Ancestrality, Imaginary, and Historicity
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9786612003370
- 9781282003378
- 1282003372
- 9781442670556
- 144267055X
- OCLC:
- 1004882433
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