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The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement

The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge - Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry

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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 depends on complex networks of relatives of both

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ISBN: 9781560983934
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Imprint: Smithsonian Institution Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 305.4889915
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 269
Weight: 546g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 25mm