Harold W Scheffler

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Australian Kin ClassificationHardcover, 29 September 1978

Australian Kin Classification
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Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Part of Series
Cambridge Solid State Science Series
Print Length
592 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Date Published
29 Sep 1978
ISBN-10
052121906X
ISBN-13
9780521219068

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This study aims to resolve the century-old debate about the nature of Australian aboriginal societies and the comparability of their structures with the structures of other tribal and kinship-based societies. It begins with a critical evaluation and refutation of the claims that Australians are 'ignorant of physical paternity' and therefore cannot have systems of kin classification. Professor Scheffler then demonstrates that systems of kin classification are a common feature of Australian languages and that, contrary to the theory proposed by A. R. Radcliffe-Brown and others, variation in the rules of interkin marriage does not account for variation in systems of kin classification. This was the first monographic treatment of the subject since Radcliffe-Brown's classic work, The Social Organization of the Australian Tribes, published in 1931, and is much more comprehensive and synthetic in its coverage of the range of variation in Australian systems of kin classification. It applies the concepts and methods of structural semantic analysis to a broad range of ethnographic and linguistic data, and demonstrates how they resolve one of anthropology's oldest and most perplexing theoretical puzzles.

Product Details

Author:
Harold W Scheffler
Book Format:
Hardcover
Date Published:
29 September 1978
ISBN-10:
052121906X
ISBN-13:
9780521219068
Language:
English
Location:
Cambridge
Pages:
592

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