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UNINA9910964381703321 |
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Titolo |
Kinship systems : change and reconstruction / / edited by Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, and Rachel Hendery |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Salt Lake City : , : University of Utah Press, , 2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (277 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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McConvellPatrick |
KeenIan |
HenderyRachel |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Kinship |
Anthropological linguistics |
Comparative linguistics |
Language and culture |
Yolngu Matha language N230 |
Warumungu language C18 |
Ngarinyin language K18 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""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"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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