Skin, kin and clan : the dynamics of social categories in Indigenous Australia /

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Australia is unique in the world for its diverse and interlocking systems of Indigenous social organisation. On no other continent do we see such an array of complex and contrasting social arrangements, coordinated through a principle of 'universal kinship' whereby two strangers meeting fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Australian National University Press
Other Authors: McConvell, Patrick (Editor), Kelly, Piers (Editor), Lacrampe, Sébastien (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Aboriginal Australians > Kinship.
Aboriginal Australians > Ethnic identity.
Aboriginal Australians > Social networks.
Aboriginal Australians > Tribal citizenship.
Anthropological linguistics.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Identité ethnique.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Réseaux sociaux.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Nationalité ethnique.
Ethnolinguistique.
anthropological linguistics.
Australia.
Indigenous peoples.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Social groups.
Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
Social Science > Ethnic Studies > American > Native American Studies.
Social Science > Sociology.
Aboriginal Australians > Ethnic identity
Aboriginal Australians > Kinship
Anthropological linguistics
The Arts.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content
Australian
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Australia is unique in the world for its diverse and interlocking systems of Indigenous social organisation. On no other continent do we see such an array of complex and contrasting social arrangements, coordinated through a principle of 'universal kinship' whereby two strangers meeting for the first time can recognise one another as kin. For some time, Australian kinship studies suffered from poor theorisation and insufficient aggregation of data. The large-scale AustKin project sought to redress these problems through the careful compilation of kinship information. Arising from the project, this book presents recent original research by a range of authors in the field on the kinship and social category systems in Australia. A number of the contributions focus on reconstructing how these systems originated and developed over time. Others are concerned with the relationship between kinship and land, the semantics of kin terms and the dynamics of kin interactions.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 483 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1760461644
9781760461645

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