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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462593403321

Titolo

Kinship systems [[electronic resource] ] : change and reconstruction / / edited by Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, and Rachel Hendery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, 2013

ISBN

1-60781-245-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McConvellPatrick

KeenIan

HenderyRachel

Disciplina

306.83

Soggetti

Kinship

Anthropological linguistics

Comparative linguistics

Language and culture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""1) Introduction""; ""2) Kinship Terms""; ""3) Comparative Phylogenetic Methods and the Study of Pattern and Process in Kinship""; ""4) Reconstructing the Proto-Polynesian Terminology""; ""5) On Husband-Borrowing""; ""6) Kin Terminologies as Linguistic Imprints of Regional Processes""; ""7) The Evolution of Yolngu and Ngarinyin Kinship Terminologies""; ""8) The Reconstruction of Kinship Terminology in the Arandic Languages of Australia""; ""9) Desertification of an Arandic Dialect""; ""10) Proto-Pama-Nyungan Kinship and the AustKin Project""

""11) Mama and Papa in Indigenous Australia""""12) Warumungu Kinship Over Time""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Index""