Going the Whiteman's way : kinship and marriage among Australian Aborigines / David McKnight.
Going the Whiteman's way : kinship and marriage among Australian Aborigines / David McKnight.
Going the Whiteman's way : kinship and marriage among Australian Aborigines / David McKnight.
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Publisher
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.
Call Numbers
306.81089/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxxi, 252 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The historical background and social setting -- 2. Paternal relations -- 3. Maternal relations -- 4. Affinal relations -- 5. Wrong marriages and changes in relationships -- 6. Classes and totems -- 7. Subsection membership and identity -- 8. Through the mother and through the father -- 9. The mar...
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Publisher
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2004.
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Summary
"This intellectual tour de force combines dense ethnography about Australian kinship and marriage - the heart of their world - with major anthropological debate about theories of kinship. It thereby provides a unique and important contribution to kinship studies." "McKnight shows how young Aborigines became increasingly determined to marry accordin...
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Full title
Going the Whiteman's way : kinship and marriage among Australian Aborigines / David McKnight.
Other title
Going the white man's way.
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Notes
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Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
Includes index.
Bibliography, p. [237]-246.
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c2004.
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306.81089/1
Record Identifier
74VKPZKL46qA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKPZKL46qA
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ISBN
0754642380 (cased) :
9780754642381 (alk. paper)
0754642380 (alk. paper)
9780754642381 (cased) :
DDC
306.810899915
MMS ID
991019500379702626
