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Title Kinship systems : change and reconstruction / edited by Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, and Rachel Hendery
Published Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2013]

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Contents Figures; Tables; 1) Introduction; 2) Kinship Terms; 3) Comparative Phylogenetic Methods and the Study of Pattern and Process in Kinship; 4) Reconstructing the Proto-Polynesian Terminology; 5) On Husband-Borrowing; 6) Kin Terminologies as Linguistic Imprints of Regional Processes; 7) The Evolution of Yolngu and Ngarinyin Kinship Terminologies; 8) The Reconstruction of Kinship Terminology in the Arandic Languages of Australia; 9) Desertification of an Arandic Dialect; 10) Proto-Pama-Nyungan Kinship and the AustKin Project; 11) Mama and Papa in Indigenous Australia
12) Warumungu Kinship Over TimeList of Contributors; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Kinship.
Kinship -- Terminology.
Anthropological linguistics.
Comparative linguistics.
Language and culture.
kinship.
anthropological linguistics.
Yolngu Matha language N230
Warumungu language C18
Ngarinyin language K18
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Anthropological linguistics
Comparative linguistics
Kinship
Language and culture
Genre/Form Terminology
Form Electronic book
Author McConvell, Patrick
LC no. 2013003841
ISBN 9781607812456
1607812452