A world of relationships : itineraries, dreams, and events in the Australian Western Desert /

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Author / Creator:	Poirier, Sylvie, 1953-
Imprint:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2005.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 303 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Anthropological horizons ; 28 Anthropological horizons ; 28.
Subject:	Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.) -- Social life and customs. Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.) Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology) -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.) Dreams -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.) Ethnology -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.) Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs. Dreams. Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology) Ethnology. Manners and customs. Mythology, Aboriginal Australian. Western Desert (W.A.) -- Social life and customs. Western Australia -- Western Desert. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11286191

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ISBN:	9781442670556 144267055X 0802035442 0802084141 9780802035448
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-289) and index.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Poirier, Sylvie, 1953- World of relationships. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2005 9780802035448

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