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Structure and Substance: Combining 'Classic' and 'Modern' Kinship Studies in the Australian Western Desert
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This paper attempts to participate in the reconciliation between 'modern' and cultural studies styles of approaches to kinship, and the more formal and structural analyses of the 'classical' type. It is argued that it is the methodological combination of these approaches that produces intelligible descriptions of social structure and process in relation to kinship. The fundamental assumption is that individual strategies play within, and to a certain extent (consciously) exploit, the structur...
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Structure and Substance: Combining 'Classic' and 'Modern' Kinship Studies in the Australian Western Desert
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
; ... and forage grounds, sometimes as much as 50 kilometres daily. Every now and then they would meet up with other groups, exchange news and goods, perform rituals, and move on again as soon as local supplies were exhausted. Being able to access distant resources ...
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At least two US soldiers killed near Najaf; US Army sets up roadblocks in Western desert
Al Bawaba
; ... freedom of movement throughout the western desert and are being very effective at it," Brigadier General Vincent Brooks told a news briefing in Qatar. U.S. officials have said two airfields in the western desert were seized by U.S. forces in the early stages ...
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The field of art production and western desert acrylics
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
; ... not a motivating force within its production.19 In Art World News, Yanow-Schwartz (1998) reports that the money raised by Western ... Yanow-Schwartz, J. 1998 Aboriginal art hits world markets. Art World News, November. [On line periodical].http://www.artworldnews.com/nov98 ...
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The brief reach of history and the limitation of recall in traditional aboriginal societies and cultures.
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; ... and belongs to clusters of clans and to widely recruited sets of individuals with interests in a sacred body of knowledge that maps their Dreamings onto the country of vast regions. In all, a widespread distribution of knowledge stabilizes names in their serried ...
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EGYPT'S WESTERN DESERT PROMISING FOR MORE OIL EXPLORATIONS
Info-Prod Research (Middle East)
; "Egypt's Western Desert became an oil hub after successful oil and gas explorations by international companies in the area," said Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmi on Monday while inspecting a number of newly-drilled oil wells. A comprehensive programme is being implemented to intensify
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A World of Relationships: Itineraries, Dreams, and Events in the Australian Western Desert.(Book review)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; 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 ...
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Apache finds new discovery in Egypt
The Journal Record
; HOUSTON (JR) -- Apache Corp. on Monday announced a significant new field oil discovery in Egypt's Western Desert. The company's Beni Suef-1X exploratory well on the East Beni Suef Concession flowed 5,200 barrels of oil per day during tests of the prolific Kharita formation. The Kharita, along with
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An Expanding Aboriginal Domain: Mobility and the Initiation Journey.
Oceania
; ABSTRACT Some pre-circumcision candidates in the Western Desert culture area are taken on a journey to gather people for the final ceremony. Since Aboriginal people started to own cars in the 1960s, these journeys have expanded to such an extent that the outward journey discussed here covered 2250
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IRAQIS LOSING GRIP ON A STRATEGIC AREA
The Boston Globe
; x AMMAN, Jordan - The war in northern and southern Iraq is playing out on television screens around the world. But in the vast western desert between Baghdad and the Jordanian border, the campaign is being waged - and apparently won - in secrecy and stealth. In a rare reference to the campaign, a
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Aboriginal Economy and Society: Australia at the Threshold of Colonisation.(Book Review)
Australian Aboriginal Studies
; Aboriginal economy and society: Australia at the threshold of colonisation Ian Keen Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2003, xxi + 436 pp, ISBN 0195507665 This book by distinguished anthropologist Ian Keen systematically compares Aboriginal customary social practices and economies of seven
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