Skin, Kin and Clan: The dynamics of social categories in Indigenous Australia

2018/04/04 by Sébastien Lacrampe, Patrick McConvell, Piers Kelly · 107 citations
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Indigenous Studies and Ecology #Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights #Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture #Kinship #Clan #Indigenous #Genealogy #Sociology #Gender studies #Anthropology #History #Ecology #Biology

paper · pdf · doi:10.22459/skc.04.2018

published in ANU Press eBooks (ANU Press)

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Abstract

Australia is unique in the world for its diverse and interlocking systems of Indigenous social organisation. On no other continent do we see such an array of complex and contrasting social arrangements, coordinated through a principle of ‘universal kinship’ whereby two strangers meeting for the first time can recognise one another as kin. For some time, Australian kinship

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