TY  - BOOK
ED  - McConvell, Patrick
ED  - Kelly, Piers
ED  - Lacrampe, Sébastien
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.22459/SKC.04.2018
ID  - OAPEN ID: 649537
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1031832109
KW  - social categories
KW  - austkin
KW  - indigenous australia
KW  - kinship studies
KW  - Patrilineality
KW  - Totem
KW  - Waanyi
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/42f50082-f259-4f83-a345-e3cf7ddab550/649537.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30167
PB  - ANU Press
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9781760461638
TI  - Skin, Kin and Clan : The dynamics of social categories in Indigenous Australia
ER  - 
