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Miwuyt marriage : the cultural anthropology of affinity in northeast Arnhem Land
- Title
- Miwuyt marriage : the cultural anthropology of affinity in northeast Arnhem Land / Warren Shapiro.
- Author
- Shapiro, Warren.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Institute for the Study of Human Issues, ©1981.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GN667.A7 S48 1981 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 173 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Arnhem Land (N.T.)
- Djinang / Dyinang people (N94.1) (NT SD53-02)
- Habitation - Camps
- Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Aboriginal Australians
- Manners and customs
- Arnhem Land (N.T.) > Social life and customs
- Milingimbi (Central Arnhem Land SD53-02)
- South East Asia (SE Asia)
- Elcho Island (East Arnhem Land NT SC53-15, SD53-03)
- Yirrkala (East Arnhem Land SD53-04)
- Milingimbi (Central Arnhem Land NT SD53-02)
- Northern Territory > Arnhem Land
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 158-168.
- ISBN
- 0897270215
- 9780897270212
- LCCN
- 81002914
- OCLC
- ocm07329433
- 7329433
- SCSB-81919
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library