The politics of ritual in an aboriginal settlement : kinship, gender, and the currency of knowledge...
The politics of ritual in an aboriginal settlement : kinship, gender, and the currency of knowledge...
The politics of ritual in an aboriginal settlement : kinship, gender, and the currency of knowledge / Françoise Dussart.
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Washington, DC ; London : Smithsonian Institution Press, c2000.
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N305.48899/1
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English
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xvi, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The Dreaming and its Kin: Past and Present Circumstance. The Jukurrpa: Meanings and Manifestations. The Transformational and Temporal Conundrums of the Jukurrpa. Warlpiri Social Organization. Kirda and Kurdungurlu. Ritual at Yuendumu: A Brief History. Patterns of Residency and Their Ritual Implic...
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Washington, DC ; London : Smithsonian Institution Press, c2000.
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England
Date Published
c2000.
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Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in the Australian desert, Dussart (anthropology and women's studies, U. of Connecticut) looks at rituals and their function, and particularly the role of women, among the Warlpiri people of the Yuendumu settlement. She shows how female ritual leaders, whose authority.
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The politics of ritual in an aboriginal settlement : kinship, gender, and the currency of knowledge / Françoise Dussart.
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Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-263) and index.
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c2000.
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N305.48899/1
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74VvNWBkVRDA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvNWBkVRDA
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1560983930 (alk. paper) :
9781560983934 (alk. paper)
1560983930 (alk. paper)
9781560983934 :
1560983930 :
9781560983934 (alk. paper) :
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305.4889915
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991012966929702626
