A world of relationships
Subtitle: itineraries, dreams, and events in the Australian Western Desert
By: Sylvie Poirier.
Series: Anthropological horizons ;; 28
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.) -- Social life and customs.; Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.); Dreamtime (Australian aboriginal mythology) -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.); Dreams -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.); Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.) -- Social life and customs.; Ethnology -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.); Temps de rêve (Mythologie australienne aborigène) -- Australie -- Occidental, Désert (Austr.-Occ.); Rêves -- Australie -- Occidental, Désert (Austr.-Occ.); Australiens (Aborigènes) -- Australie -- Occidental, Désert (Austr.-Occ.) -- Moeurs et coutumes.; Ethnologie -- Australie -- Occidental, Désert (Austr.-Occ.); Western Desert (W.A.) -- Social life and customs.; Occidental, Désert (Austr.-Occ.) -- Moeurs et coutumes.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-289) and index.