Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia

It has been mentioned above that the _pirrauru_ custom, so far from being an extension of the recognised practice of Australian tribes, is in some respects a limitation of it. W...

In discussions of the origin and evolution of kinship organisations, we are necessarily concerned not only with their forms but also with the rules of descent which regulate mem...

Theories of group marriage. Meaning of group. Dieri customs. Tippa-malku marriage. Obscure points. _Pirrauru._ Obscure points. Relation of _pirrauru_ to _tippa-malku_ unions. Ku...

Classes later than Phratries. Anomalous Phratry Areas. Four-class Systems. Borrowing of Names. Eight-class System. Resemblances and Differences of Names. Place of Origin. Format...

It has been shown in Chapter III that from the point of view of kinship organisations Australia falls into three main areas--occupied by the classless two-phratry, the four-clas...

Before proceeding to deal with the Australian facts it will be well to define the terminology to be employed, and give a brief survey of a typical organisation. Looking at the p...

The passage from what is commonly termed savagery through barbarism to civilisation is marked by a change in the character of the associations which are almost everywhere a feat...

The arguments for group marriage in Australia are of two kinds--(1) from the terms of relationship, that is to say of a mixed philological and sociological character, and (2) fr...

We may now turn to consider the terms of relationship from the point of view of marriage, more especially in connection with Australia. We have already seen that there are great...

If a pre-phratry organisation developed into the system as we find it, it is a little difficult to see how selection can have operated, unless, indeed, as Mr Lang suggests, the...

Students of the sociology of white races enjoy conspicuous advantages over those who devote themselves to the investigation of the organisation of races in the lower stages of c...

In order to facilitate reference and to diminish the necessity for footnotes a survey of classes and phratries is here given. It will be well to explain how they are arranged.

Some classless two-phratry tribes observe in practice the same rules as the four and eight class tribes when they are deciding what marriages are permissible. The Dieri and Narr...

In dealing with the origin of the classes it is important to bear in mind that they are undoubtedly later than the phratries. This is clear, not only from the considerations urg...

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Theories of group marriage. Meaning of group. Dieri customs. Tippa-malku marriage. Obscure points. _Pirrauru._ Obscure points. Relation of _pirrauru_ to _tippa-malku_ unions. Ku...

Classes later than Phratries. Anomalous Phratry Areas. Four-class Systems. Borrowing of Names. Eight-class System. Resemblances and Differences of Names. Place of Origin. Format...

Descent of Kinship, origin and primitive form. Matriliny in Australia. Relation to potestas, position of widow, etc. Change of rule of descent; relation to potestas, inheritance...