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

Title
  1. A world of relationships : itineraries, dreams and events in the Australian Western Desert / Sylvie Poirier.
Published by
  1. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2005], ©2005.
Author
  1. Poirier, Sylvie.

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Description
  1. xi, 303 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Series statement
  1. Anthropological horizons ; 28
Uniform title
  1. Anthropological horizons ; 28.
Subject
  1. Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology) > Western Desert (W.A.)
  2. Dreams > Western Desert (W.A.)
  3. Aboriginal Australians > Western Desert (W.A.) > Social life and customs
  4. Ethnology > Western Desert (W.A.)
  5. Temps de rêve (Mythologie australienne aborigène) > Occidental, Désert (Austr.-Occ.)
  6. Rêves > Occidental, Désert (Austr.-Occ.)
  7. Australiens (Aborigènes) > Occidental, Désert (Austr.-Occ.) > Moeurs et coutumes
  8. Ethnologie > Occidental, Désert (Austr.-Occ.)
  9. Western Desert (W.A.) > Social life and customs
  10. Occidental, Désert (Austr.-Occ.) > Moeurs et coutumes
Contents
  1. 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.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.