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Author Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868-1936.

Title Kinship organisations and group marriage in Australia / by Northcote W. Thomas
Edition First edition, new impression
Published Cambridge : University Press, 1906

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 W'PONDS  994.0049915 Tho  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 163 pages : maps ; 22 cm
regular print
Series Cambridge archaelogical and ethnological series
Cambridge archaelogical and ethnological series
Summary 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 Includes indexes
Bibliography Bibliography: page xii-xiii
Notes Also available electronically at Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
RB copies 4 & 5 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
RB copy 2 donated by ATSIC
RB copy 3 donated from Stanner collection
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Kinship.
Aboriginal Australians -- Marriage customs and rites.
Consanguinity -- Australia.
Consanguinity.
Ethnology -- Australia.
Group marriage -- Australia.
Kinship -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
Kinship.
Marriage customs and rites -- Australia.
Marriage -- History.
Tribes.
Consanguinity.
Ethnic Groups.
Ethnology.
Marriage -- history.
LC no. 07028949