Skin, kin and clan : the dynamics of social categories in Indigenous Australia / edited by Patrick McConvell, Piers Kelly and Sebastien Lacrampe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McConvell, Patrick., Editor.

Contributor:

McConvell, Patrick, editor.

Kelly, Piers, editor.

Lacrampe, Sébastien, editor.

Australian National University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Kinship.

Aboriginal Australians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 483 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2018

Acton, Australian Capital Territory : ANU Press, 2018.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781760461645

1760461644

Publisher Number:

10.22459/SKC.04.2018