The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, gender, and the currency of knowledge.(Book Review)

From: Australian Aboriginal Studies | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Bell, Diane | Copyright information

The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, gender, and the currency of knowledge

Francoise Dussart

Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London, 2000, xvi+269pp., ISBN 1 560 98393 0

This book, as Francoise Dussart explains in her Acknowledgments and Introduction, was a long time in coming and she is to be congratulated for staying the course. Over a period of nigh on two decades, her project shifted from an ethnographic ex...

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