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This volume is woven around the idea that wholeness (the firm) and fragmentation (risking formlessness) alternate in human affairs. This theme is applied to the history and the present condition of Australian Aboriginals. Their religion is seen as a way to bolster a precarious identity and to affirm order in an existence which would otherwise become formless. It deals with totemism as a form of ordering a variety of often conflicting identities. The author describes the modern predicament of Aborigines in Australian society and concludes that their revitalization will occur only when they manage to make economic self-sufficiency subordinate to a viable and firm view of existence. He critically integrates into his analyses and interpretations the positions of such well-known scholars as Frazer, Durkheim, Freud, Lévi-Strauss, Radcliffe-Brown, Eliade, and Stanner. The volume will be of interest to students of sociology, anthropology, and religion.

Aboriginal Australians --- Mythology, Aboriginal Australian. --- Aboriginal Australian mythology --- Australian mythology --- Mythology, Australian aboriginal --- Religion. --- Ethnic identity.

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"A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account 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 1990s, it was originally published in French as Les jardins du nomade: Cosmologie, territoire et personne dans le desert 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."--Jacket

Aboriginal Australians --- Mythology, Aboriginal Australian --- Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Aboriginals, Australian --- Aborigines, Australian --- Australian aboriginal people --- Australian aboriginals --- Australian aborigines --- Australians, Aboriginal --- Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) --- Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- Alchera (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Alcheringa (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Dream-time (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Dreaming, The (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Dreamtime (Australian aboriginal mythology) --- The dreaming (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Aboriginal Australian mythology --- Australian mythology --- Mythology, Australian aboriginal --- Social life and customs. --- Religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Dreaming --- Dreams --- Australiens (Aborigènes) --- Mythologie australienne (aborigène) --- Temps du rêve (Mythologie australienne aborigène) --- Rêves --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Western Desert (W.A.) --- Occidental, Désert (Austr.-Occ.) --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Moeurs et coutumes.

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This book examines the emotional engagements of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history.

Mythology, Aboriginal Australian. --- Aboriginal Australians --- Mythology, Aboriginal Australian --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- History --- Social life and customs --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- Australia --- Aboriginal Australian mythology --- Australian mythology --- Mythology, Australian aboriginal --- History - Theory and criticism