A World of Relationships: Itineraries, Dreams, and Events in the Australian Western Desert

'A World of Relationships is a work of considerable empirical and analytic originality that offers an important study of the socio-cultural use and impact of dreams in the daily life of sedentarized Aboriginal people in a small village in Central Australia. The ability to link empirical work to theory is a refreshing stand in anthropology and I wish there were more monographs like Poirier's.'

Françoise Dussart, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut

'The strength of this splendid, invaluable book is that it avoids post-modernist polemics concerning social identity and political resistance by grounding these important issues not in jargon but on solid and detailed fieldwork observations. Poirier is obviously an excellent field anthropologist who knows there is little to be gained from polemics. A World of Relationships is extremely well-argued, logical, exciting to read, exceptionally well-written, and, needless to say, an important contribution on ethnographic and theoretical levels.'

Guy Lanoue, Département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal