The politics of ritual in an aboriginal settlement : kinship, gender, and the currency of knowledge / Francoise Dussart
- Bib ID:
- 570292
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Dussart, Francoise
- Description:
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- Washington, DC ; London : Smithsonian Institution Press, c2000
- xvi, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1560983930 (alkaline paper)
- Series:
- Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry.
- Summary:
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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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-263) and index.
- Subject:
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- Kinship -- Northern Territory -- Yuendumu
- Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology) -- Northern Territory -- Yuendumu
- Women, Warlpiri -- Rites and ceremonies
- Mythology, Warlpiri -- Northern Territory -- Yuendumu
- Sex role -- Northern Territory -- Yuendumu
- Women, Warlpiri -- Kinship
- Women, Warlpiri -- Religion
- Anthropology - Theory and criticism
- Indigenous knowledge - World view
- Social behaviour - Hierarchies
- Social behaviour - Roles
- Social behaviour
- Ceremonies
- Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms
- Gender relations - Gender roles
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Social organisation
- Yuendumu (N.T.) -- Social life and customs
- Yuendumu (South Central NT SF52-12)
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- Publication date:
- 2000
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