“This is good country. We are good dreamers”: Dreams and dreaming in the Australian western desert

Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 107-126

  Poirier, Sylvie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1057/9781403982476     Document Type: Chapter

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