Kinship Systems: Change and Reconstruction

✍ Scribed by Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, Rachel Hendery

Publisher: University of Utah Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 277
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Kinship systems are the glue that holds social groups together. This volume presents a novel approach to understanding the genesis of these systems and how and why they change. The editors bring together experts from the disciplines of anthropology and linguistics to explore kinship in societies around the world and to reconstruct kinship in ancient times. Kinship Systems presents evidence of renewed activity and advances in this field in recent years which will contribute to the current interdisciplinary focus on the evolution of society. While all continents are touched on in this book, there is special emphasis on Australian indigenous societies, which have been a source of fascination in kinship studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Tables......Page 10
1) Introduction......Page 12
2) Kinship Terms......Page 30
3) Comparative Phylogenetic Methods and the Study of Pattern and Process in Kinship......Page 54
4) Reconstructing the Proto-Polynesian Terminology......Page 70
5) On Husband-Borrowing......Page 102
6) Kin Terminologies as Linguistic Imprints of Regional Processes......Page 134
7) The Evolution of Yolngu and Ngarinyin Kinship Terminologies......Page 143
8) The Reconstruction of Kinship Terminology in the Arandic Languages of Australia......Page 174
9) Desertification of an Arandic Dialect......Page 198
10) Proto-Pama-Nyungan Kinship and the AustKin Project......Page 203
11) Mama and Papa in Indigenous Australia......Page 228
12) Warumungu Kinship Over Time......Page 250
List of Contributors......Page 266
Index......Page 268

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