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Cambridge University Press, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text but with some faint spotting to the fore-edge, the dust jacket is complete, but lightly rubbed to the extremities, map, xx + 569pp.
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- Title Australian Kin Classification
- Author Harold W. Scheffler
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 592
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1978
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780521219068 / 052121906X
- Weight 2.14 lbs (0.97 kg)
- Library of Congress subjects Aboriginal Australians - Kinship, Kinship - Australia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 77078391
- Dewey Decimal Code 301.421
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Cambridge University Press, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 160mm x 235mm. Jacket has heavy general wear, some small losses and a few small tears. A feint pencil impression to top corner of ffep, otherwise internally very clean. Binding tight. 592pp 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…
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Cambridge University Press. Very Good+ with no dustjacket. 1978. Hardcover. 052121906X . From the preface: "This book is an attempt to demonstrate that the categories by which the aboriginal peoples of Australia order their social lives are predominantly kin categories - a moot point in social anthropology - and, beyond this, to reveal the structures and the relations among the structures of Australian systems of kin classification." ; 8vo .
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