A World of Relationships
Author | : Sylvie Poirier |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780802084149 |
ISBN-13 | : 0802084141 |
Rating | : 4/5 (141 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis A World of Relationships by : Sylvie Poirier
Download or read book A World of Relationships written by Sylvie Poirier and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on her three years of field work in the Balgo Hills during the 1980s and on recent ethnographic literature, Poirier (anthropology, U. Laval, Quebec) explains dialectical aspects of Australian Aboriginal social and cosmological realities. She focuses on the relations among the ancestral order, the land, and human and non- human agencies. Ann