Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 199 pages of information about Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia.

Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 199 pages of information about Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia.
| |husband) | | ------------------+------------------+------------------+---
--------------+ |_Yudanta_ | |_Yuunta_ (son’s | |(daughter’s child)| |child) | V ------------------+------------------+------------------+---
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So far as deficiencies in our information would allow, these tables have been drawn up on corresponding lines, and the first point which strikes us is the great similarity between the three tables, in spite of the apparent wide divergence in the kinship organisation of the tribes.  To facilitate comparison the Wathi-Wathi terms have been arranged, not only according to the system in use in the tribe, but in such a way as to show how the terms would be arranged under the four-class system.

Arunta:  Eight-class.

----------------+---------------+-------------------+--
----------------+---- Panunga | Uknaria | Bulthara
| Appungerta |Gen-----------------+---------------+-------------------+------------------+er- | |_Ipmunna_ (mother’s|_Arunga_ (father’s|at- | |mother, wife’s |father) |ion | |mother’s father) | |I ----------------+---------------+-------------------+-------
-----------+ Oknia (father)|_Mura_ (wife’s | | | Uwinna |mother, wife’s | | |II (father’s |mother’s | | | sisters) |brothers) | | | | | | | ----------------+---------------+-------------------+-------
-----------+ | | | EGO | | |_Ipmunna_ (father’s|_Okilia_ (elder | | |sister’s daughter’s|brothers) | | |husband, son’s |_Ungaraitcha_ |III | |wife’s mother) |(elder sisters) | | | |_Itia_ (younger | | | |brothers and | | | |sisters) | ----------------+---------------+-------------------+-------
-----------+ Allira | | | | (children, | | | | brother’s | | | |IV children) | | | | ----------------|---------------+-------------------+-------
-----------+ | | |_Arunga_ (son’s | | | |son) |V ----------------+---------------+-------------------+-------
-----------+----
----------------+---------------+-------------------+--
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