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

• Pubblicazione: Salt Lake City : , : University of Utah Press, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.83
• Soggetto topico: Kinship; Anthropological linguistics; Comparative linguistics; Language and culture; Yolngu Matha language N230; Warumungu language C18; Ngarinyin language K18
• Altri autori: McConvellPatrick KeenIan HenderyRachel
• 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Kinship systems
• ISBN: 1-60781-245-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910964381703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II