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Dussart, Francoise was born on May 14, 1959 in Paris. Came to the United States, 1988. Daughter of Jean Gilbert Dussart and Yvonne Constance Guet.
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(Aboriginal Religions in Australia: An Anthology of Recent Writings) Author: Francoise Dussart published on (April, 2005)
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The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge
(The Warlpiri of the Central Australian Desert maintain li...)
The Warlpiri of the Central Australian Desert maintain links to each other and to their lands in ritual performances that recreate the Dreaming itineraries of Ancestral Beings, such as Fire, Water, the Honey Ant, or the Emu. Each Warlpiri "owns" at least one Dreaming, but the performances of Dreaming stories are generally overseen by ritual leaders who ensure their proper reenactment. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork at the Yuendumu settlement, Françoise Dussart shows how female ritual leaders transcend the rigid physical divisions that separate them from their male counterparts and how they function simultaneously as individuals, as women, as Warlpiri, and as members of residential kin groups.
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Francoise Dussart
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Francoise Dussart, French anthropologist, educator. Research grantee Wenner Gren, New York, 1991; National Endowment of the Humanities fellow, 1995-1996. Member American Anthropol. Association, Australian Institute Aboriginal Studies (research grantee 1984, 87, 91), European Society Oceanists, French Society Oceanists, Women's Studies Program (Storrs).
Education
Bachelor in Sociology, Sorbonne, Paris, 1980. Master of Arts in Anthropology, Sorbonne, Paris, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, 1989.
Career
Assistant professor anthropology Rutgers University, Newark, 1989-1991, New York University, New York City, 1990-1991, University Connecticut, Storrs, 1991-1997, associate professor anthropology, women studies, since 1997. Curatorial consultant, Museum Popular Art, Haut Languedoc, France, 1979-1980, Asia Society, New York City, 1987-1988. Co-curator South Australian Museum, Adelaide, 1988, Musée des Arts Africains et Oceaniens, Paris, 1993.
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The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge
(The Warlpiri of the Central Australian Desert maintain li...)
- (Aboriginal Religions in Australia: An Anthology of Recent Writings) Author: Francoise Dussart published on (April, 2005)
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The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge
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Member American Anthropol. Association, Australian Institute Aboriginal Studies (research grantee 1984, 87, 91), European Society Oceanists, French Society Oceanists, Women's Studies Program (Storrs).
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Married Allen Jay Kurzweil, February 22, 1991. 1 child, Maximilian Kurzweil.
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