There is in deed half a quasi-infinite amount of reading out there, I hear you. Of the many books endowed of anthropological sharing, this one is particularly powerful as it is so encompassing in terms of multi-disciplinarian wholesomeness, on one hand. Coming from the perspective of academic background, such reach has never been seen in any of the books I had seen then or since.

Furthermore and more importantly, its potency derives straight from its sharing of experiential-knowledge as the stature of it goes well beyond the mundane and, metaphorically speaking, points at the moon for the ones ready and willing to look at it and move toward it...

The prose isn't elitist and is given a fair attempt at reaching a reader from as wide a background as one can given the situation. As you may know, this is a rare combo in the academic world!?.

Here's the presentation of her book, if you haven't had the chance of reading it through the link offered earlier:

*"A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account and anthropological study of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert. The outcome of fieldwork conducted in the area in the 1980s and 90s, it was originally published in French as Les jardins du nomade: Cosmologie, territoire et personne dans le d sert occidental australien.

In her study, Sylvie Poirier explores the contemporary Aboriginal system of knowledge and law through an analysis of the relationships between the ancestral order, the 'sentient' land, and human agencies. At the ethnographical and analytical levels, particular attention is given to a range of local narratives and stories, and to the cultural construction of individual experiences. Poirier also investigates the cultural system of dreams and dreaming, and the process of their socialization, analysing their ideological, semantic, pragmatic, and experiential dimensions. Through the synthesis of a complex and diverse range of theoretical and empirical materials, A World of Relationships offers new insights into Australian Aboriginal sociality, historicity, and dynamics of cultural change and ritual innovation."
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