| What is the AusAnthrop website about
The AusAnthrop site is dedicated to research and resources in anthropology, for academics as well as the layman. Special accent is on Aboriginal Australia, and more specifically on the Aborigines of the Western Desert cultural bloc. However, other resources are, and future resources will be, of interest to a wider public, whether anthropologists or not.
| New book by the author of this website |
Laurent Dousset
Assimilating Identities: Social Networks and the Diffusion of Sections, Oceania Monograph 57, 2005

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Assimilating Identities is the study and reconstruction of social networks in the Australian Western Desert, covering about 600 000 square kilometers. It is an historical and anthropological analysis of the way Western Desert people, with their over 40 dialectal groups, related to each other through space an time, in particular through the study of the diffusion of one particular aspect of their social organization, the section system, but including also aspects of other cultural and material affinities.
(Published as Oceania Monograph No. 57, Oceania Publications, University of Sydney)
It is reminded that this monograph is not an introduction into Anthropology or Australian Studies
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