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    Skin, Kin and Clan

    The dynamics of social categories in Indigenous Australia

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    Contributor(s)
    McConvell, Patrick (editor)
    Kelly, Piers (editor)
    Lacrampe, Sébastien (editor)
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    English
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    Abstract
    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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    https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32939
    Keywords
    social categories; austkin; indigenous australia; kinship studies; Patrilineality; Totem; Waanyi
    DOI
    10.22459/SKC.04.2018
    ISBN
    9781760461638
    Publisher
    ANU Press
    Publisher website
    http://press.anu.edu.au
    Publication date and place
    2018
    Classification
    Australia
    Social groups
    Indigenous peoples
    Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Pages
    504
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      This project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 871069.

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