Classification of kin, age structure and marriage amongst the Groote Eylandt Aborigines : a study in method and a theory of Australian kinship / Frederick G.G. Rose
- Bib ID:
- 2380271
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Rose, Frederick G. G. (Frederick George Godfrey), 1915-1991
- Description:
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- Berlin : Akademie Verlag, 1960
- vi, 572 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Summary:
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Field work 1941 (May-Sept.); geographical environment, history of contact, traditional economy; Indonesian cultural influence; classificatory system of relationship, marriage, kin terminology; method of collecting data; analysis of classificatory & age data; method of acquiring wives, wife stealing, fluid nature of marriage, relation of the family to the horde, sexual division in the procurement and distribution of food; aspects of polygymy; the nature of Australian gerontocracy, interpretation of mother-in-law taboo, sister exchange & cross cousin marriage; comparison of types of kinship classification; consideration of Groote Eylandt kinship data as being derived from societies of various types (Karera, Aranda, Karadjeri, Ungarinyin); Appendices include results of blood grouping tests, additional notes on ethnography, totems, myths of totems, cicatrization, circumcision ritual, after-death beliefs; gerontocracy in Tasmania & its theoretical importance; p.247-467; Tabular data.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Groote Eylandt -- Kinship
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Initiation - Circumcision
- Demography - Age distribution
- Family - Mothers in law
- Body - Scarification
- Daily life
- Family - Cousins
- Gender relations - Polygamy
- Anindilyakwa / Enindhilyagwa / Warnindilyakwa people (N151) (NT SD53-12)
- Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms
- Food - Sociocultural aspects - Sharing
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Demography - Census data
- Religion - Totemism
- Human biology - Genetics - Blood groups
- Gender relations - Division of labour
- Social organisation - Avoidance rules - Avoidance relationships
- Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians
- Religion - After death beliefs
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- Groote Eylandt (NT Gulf Islands SD53-07, SD53-08)
- Tasmania (Tas)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2061 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1991
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1960
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