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

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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Autor Corporativo: ANU Press (-)
Otros Autores: McConvell, Patrick (-), Kelly, Piers, Lacrampe, Sébastien
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press 2018.
Colección:JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Revisiting Aboriginal Social Organisation / Patrick McConvell
  • Evolving Perspectives on Aboriginal Social Organisation: From Mutual Misrecognition to the Kinship Renaissance / Piers Kelly and Patrick McConvell
  • Part I: People and Place. Systems in Geography or Geography of Systems? Attempts to Represent Spatial Distributions of Australian Social Organisation / Laurent Dousset
  • The Sources of Confusion over Social and Territorial Organisation in Western Victoria / Raymond Madden
  • Disputation, Kinship and Land Tenure in Western Arnhem Land / Mark Harvey
  • Part II: Social Categories and Their History. Moiety Names in South-Eastern Australia: Distribution and Reconstructed History / Harold Koch, Luise Hercus and Piers Kelly
  • Patriclan Subsets of the Ashburton River District in Western Australia / Peter Sutton
  • The Birds and the Bees: The Origins of Sections in Queensland / Patrick McConvell
  • Generic Terms for Subsections ('Skins') in Australia: Sources and Semantic Networks / Patrick McConvell and Maïa Ponsonnet
  • The Development of Arandic Subsection Names in Time and Space / Harold Koch
  • Part III: Kinship Systems. Close-Distant: An Essential Dichotomy in Australian Kinship / Tony Jefferies
  • Asymmetrical Distinctions in Waanyi Kinship Terminology / Mary Laughren
  • Genesis of the Trinity: The Convergent Evolution of Trirelational Kinterms / Joe Blythe.