Skin, Kin and Clan The Dynamics of Social Categories in Indigenous Australia |
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| Editor:
| McConvell, Patrick
Kelly, Piers
Lacrampe, Sébastien |
| ISBN: | 978-1-76046-164-5 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2018 |
| Publisher: | ANU Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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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.
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.