Kinship Systems - Change and Reconstruction

Informationen zum Autor Patrick McConvell is a linguist and anthropologist who has carried out research in several areas of Australia. A research fellow at the Australian National University, he is coeditor of Archaeology and Linguistics and author of a number of articles on kinship and kinship change. Together with co-editors Keen and Hendery he has worked on the AustKin project in recent years. Ian Keen is an anthropologist of Australian indigenous societies at the Australian National University. Author of Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion and Aboriginal Economy and Society , he is a specialist in kinship and marriage studies. Rachel Hendery is a post-doctoral fellow at The Australian National University. She is coeditor of Grammatical Change: Theory and Description and author of Relative Clauses in Time and Space: A Case Study in the Methods of Diachronic Typology . Klappentext 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. The editors bring together experts from the disciplines of anthropology and linguistics to explore kinship in societies around the world and to reconstruct kinship in ancient times. Zusammenfassung 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. The editors bring together experts from the disciplines of anthropology and linguistics to explore kinship in societies around the world and to reconstruct kinship in ancient times.

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• Authors: Patrick McConvell, Patrick (EDT)/ Keen Mcconvell, MCCONVELL PATRICK EDT KEEN IA
• Assisted by: Rachel Henderey (Editor), Ian Keen (Editor), Lecturer and Visiting Fellow School of Archaeology and Anthropology Ian (Australian National University) Keen (Editor), Patrick McConvell (Editor), Senior Lecturer Department of Anthropology Patrick (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies McConvell (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Utah Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 22
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2013
• EAN: 9781607812449
• ISBN: 978-1-60781-244-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous