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

Skin, kin and clan : the dynamics of social categories in indigenous Australia / edited by Patrick McConvell, Piers Kelly and Sébastien Lacrampe.
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ISBN 9781760461638
Title Skin, kin and clan : the dynamics of social categories in indigenous Australia / edited by Patrick McConvell, Piers Kelly and Sébastien Lacrampe.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Acton, ACT : ANU Press, [2018]
©2018.
Description xix, 483 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subjects Aboriginal Australians -- Kinship
Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity
Aboriginal Australians -- Social networks
Aboriginal Australians -- Tribal citizenship
Anthropological linguistics
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons McConvell, Patrick (editor.)
Kelly, Piers (editor.)
Lacrampe, Sébastien (editor.)
Other Corporate Bodies ANU Press
Call number 2018.370
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