A World of Relationships: Itineraries, Dreams, and Events in the Australian Western Desert.(Book review)

From: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Merlan, Francesca | Copyright information

POIRIER, SYLVIE. A world of relationships: itineraries, dreams, and events in the Australian Western Desert. xi, 303 pp., maps, plates, bibliogr. London, Toronto: Univ. Toronto Press, 2005. [pounds sterling]42.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]20.00 (paper)

This is a revised version of a book originally published in French entitled Les jardins du nomade: cosmologie, personne et territoire dans le desert occidental australien (1996). It is based on three years' fieldwork in Ba...

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