Kinship organisations and group marriage in Australia / Northcote W. Thomas
- Bib ID:
- 2323246
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868-1936
- Description:
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- Melbourne : F.W. Cheshire, 1966
- xiii, 163 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
- Summary:
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Social organization, kinship groups, phratries, descent of kinship, inheritance & local organization; definitions; tables of classes, phratries, comparison of blood and phratries; kinship terms, types of sexual unions, group marriage, pirrauru, temporary unions, initiation ceremonies, anomalous marriages; takes examples from many different tribes.
- Notes:
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- Originally published: London : Cass, 1906.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. xii-xiii.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Kinship
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
- Kinship
- Gender relations - Polygamy
- Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Sections and subsections
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Australia
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1931
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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- 1936
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1966
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