Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Preface
- Map of tribal locations in Australia
- 1 Preliminary considerations
- 2 Types and varieties
- 3 Pitjantjara
- 4 Kariera–like systems
- 5 Nyulnyul and Mardudhunera
- 6 Karadjeri
- 7 Arabana
- 8 Yir Yoront and Murngin
- 9 Walbiri and Dieri
- 10 Ngarinyin
- 11 An overview
- 12 Kin classification and section systems
- 13 Variation in subsection systems
- 14 Kinship and the social order
- Notes
- References
- Indexes
6 - Karadjeri
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Preface
- Map of tribal locations in Australia
- 1 Preliminary considerations
- 2 Types and varieties
- 3 Pitjantjara
- 4 Kariera–like systems
- 5 Nyulnyul and Mardudhunera
- 6 Karadjeri
- 7 Arabana
- 8 Yir Yoront and Murngin
- 9 Walbiri and Dieri
- 10 Ngarinyin
- 11 An overview
- 12 Kin classification and section systems
- 13 Variation in subsection systems
- 14 Kinship and the social order
- Notes
- References
- Indexes
Summary
The focus of this chapter is the system of kin classification of the inland division of the Karadjeri of Western Australia. This system and several others – are described by Elkin and Radcliffe-Brown as a special type, which they designate as the Karadjeri type. They describe the principal distinctive features of this type as:
1. Use of three (rather than two or four) terms in the second ascending and descending generations, distributed in this way, (a) FF, FFZ, (b) MM, MMB, (c) MF, MFZ, FM, FMB.
2. Terminological differentiation of MBC and FZC. They attribute these features to a “preference” for MBD–FZS marriage coupled with a prohibition on FZD–MBS marriage and a consequent prohibition on the exchange of sisters in marriage. Radcliffe-Brown (1951: 42) notes that systems of this type occur in association with section systems (Karadjeri), subsection systems (Murngin), patrilineal moieties (Yir Yoront), and apparently, in one society (Larakia) that had no moieties, sections, or subsections.
As noted in Chapter 2, to account for certain differences among the several systems of this type, Radcliffe-Brown introduced the distinction between basic and secondary lines of descent.
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- Australian Kin Classification , pp. 208 - 239Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1978