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Project Details and Progress The Western Desert Project is a sub directory of the AusAnthrop web site. It describes the methods, means and results of an ongoing project on land tenure and kinship of the Aborigines of the Western Desert of Australia. The aim is to analyse contemporary social structure among these 40 and more dialectal groups, as well as to investigate historical transformations. Please browse around... more resources are added whenever the research project has significantly advanced. Background and Definition First Steps and Documentation Western Desert Groups Western Desert Bibliography database with search engine Kinship Project Sections systems in the Western Desert Diffusion of section terminology (article) Archival Project Archival Files processed Archival Database (to come)

	Books available on the Western Desert at amazon.com
	F. Myers: Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self :...
	R. Tonkinson: The Mardu Aborigines : Living the Dream...
	R. Folds, Crossed purposes: the Pintupi...