- Bib ID:
- 1557192
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Shapiro, Warren
- Description:
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- Philadelphia : Institute for the Study of Human Issues, c1981
- xi, 173 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0897270215
- Summary:
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Detailed analysis of Murngin kinship structures based on fieldwork primarily at Elcho Island and also at Milingimbi, Yirrkala and associated bush camps; confronts descent theory and alliance theory with northeast Arnhem Land data and suggests that Murngin materials better ordered by appealing to a notion of endogamous kindreds than to one of exogamous descent groups and their inter-connections; Murngin kinship has more in common with other Aboriginal social orders than with Kachin and other asymmetric alliance systems of southeast Asia.
- Full contents:
- Includes index.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 158-168.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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