A World of Relationships: Itineraries, Dreams, and Events in the Australian Western Desert

Sylvie Poirier

Published by University of Toronto Press 2004

A World of Relationships

Itineraries, Dreams, and Events in the Australian Western Desert

Sylvie Poirier

In the series Anthropological Horizons

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442670556

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About this book

Through the synthesis of a complex and diverse range of theoretical and empirical materials, A World of Relationships offers new insights into Australian Aboriginal sociality, historicity, and dynamics of cultural change and ritual innovation.

Author / Editor information

Poirier Sylvie :

Sylvie Poirier is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval.

Reviews

Françoise Dussart, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut:

'A World of Relationships is a work of considerable empirical and analytic originality that offers an important study of the socio-cultural use and impact of dreams in the daily life of sedentarized Aboriginal people in a small village in Central Australia. The ability to link empirical work to theory is a refreshing stand in anthropology and I wish there were more monographs like Poirier's.'

Guy Lanoue, Département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal:

'A World of Relationships is a work of considerable empirical and analytic originality that offers an important study of the socio-cultural use and impact of dreams in the daily life of sedentarized Aboriginal people in a small village in Central Australia. The ability to link empirical work to theory is a refreshing stand in anthropology and I wish there were more monographs like Poirier's.'

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. A Place like Balgo: A Story of Accommodation, Resistance, and Misunderstandings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2. Ancestrality, Sentient Places, and Social Spaces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Chapter 3. Sociality, Mobility, and Composite Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Chapter 4. Ways of Being, Relating, and Knowing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Chapter 5. The Social Setting of Dreams and Dreaming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Chapter 6. Ritual Vitality and Mobility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Conclusion: Ancestrality, Imaginary, and Historicity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
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References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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eBook

Published: March 14, 2005
ISBN: 9781442670556