Skin, Kin and Clan: The dynamics of social categories in Indigenous Australia - Couverture souple

 
9781760461638: Skin, Kin and Clan: The dynamics of social categories in Indigenous Australia
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1760461636 ISBN 13 : 9781760461638
Editeur : ANU Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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Éditeur
ANU Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1760461636
ISBN 13 
9781760461638
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
504
Éditeur
McConvell Patrick, Kelly Piers, Lacrampe Sébastien
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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