Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia


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Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia is historical research on the kinship traditions of the tribes of Anula and Mara. The book deals with the social organization of the tribes, their naming traditions, the concept of a family status such as marriage and widows, kinship terms, types of sexual unions, the notion of group marriage.







Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia


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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.




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