Title Social organization in Aboriginal Australia / Warren Shapiro

Published Canberra : Australian National University Press, 1979

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Description viii, 135 pages ; 23 cm Contents 1. Ideologies of parenthood -- 2. Ritual lodges -- 3. Residence groups -- 4. Matrilineal ties -- 5. Moiety systems -- 6. Relationship terminologies -- 7. Four- and Eight-class systems -- 8. Semi-moiety organization -- 9. Some aspects of the conjugal bond -- 10. The wider network of affinity Summary Kinship and affinity, especially in north eastern Arnhem Land; ideologies of parenthood; ritual lodges; residence groups; matrilineal ties; relationship terminologies; sections, subsections, moieties and semi-moieties Analysis Aboriginal Australians Ethnology Australia Aboriginal Australians - Social life and customs Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 119-132 Event 1979 Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Kinship. Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions. Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land Aboriginal Australians. Aboriginal Australians -- Social structure Ethnology -- Australia. Kinship -- Australia. LC no. anb70810729 ISBN 070810729X

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