Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX TO ABBREVIATIONS
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II DESCENT
- CHAPTER III DEFINITIONS AND HISTORY
- CHAPTER IV TABLES OF CLASSES, PHRATRIES, ETC.
- CHAPTER V PHRATRY NAMES
- CHAPTER VI ORIGIN OF PHRATRIES
- CHAPTER VII CLASS NAMES
- CHAPTER VIII THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF CLASSES
- CHAPTER IX KINSHIP TERMS
- CHAPTER X TYPES OF SEXUAL UNIONS
- CHAPTER XI GROUP MARRIAGE AND MORGAN'S THEORIES
- CHAPTER XII GROUP MARRIAGE AND THE TERMS OF RELATIONSHIP
- CHAPTER XIII PIRRAURU
- CHAPTER XIV TEMPORARY UNIONS
- APPENDIX: ANOMALOUS MARRIAGES
- INDEX OF PHRATRY, BLOOD, AND CLASS NAMES
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- Plate section
APPENDIX: ANOMALOUS MARRIAGES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX TO ABBREVIATIONS
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II DESCENT
- CHAPTER III DEFINITIONS AND HISTORY
- CHAPTER IV TABLES OF CLASSES, PHRATRIES, ETC.
- CHAPTER V PHRATRY NAMES
- CHAPTER VI ORIGIN OF PHRATRIES
- CHAPTER VII CLASS NAMES
- CHAPTER VIII THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF CLASSES
- CHAPTER IX KINSHIP TERMS
- CHAPTER X TYPES OF SEXUAL UNIONS
- CHAPTER XI GROUP MARRIAGE AND MORGAN'S THEORIES
- CHAPTER XII GROUP MARRIAGE AND THE TERMS OF RELATIONSHIP
- CHAPTER XIII PIRRAURU
- CHAPTER XIV TEMPORARY UNIONS
- APPENDIX: ANOMALOUS MARRIAGES
- INDEX OF PHRATRY, BLOOD, AND CLASS NAMES
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- Plate section
Summary
A certain number of Australian tribes have ceased to adhere strictly to the regulations of their class systems. Thus, in the Kamilaroi tribe a correspondent of Dr Howitt's found intraclass marriage, the totem only being different; in determining the class and totem of the children the ordinary rule held good. The Wiradjeri on the Lachlan permit Ipai to marry Muri as well as Kumbo, the two classes both belonging to Kupathin; in each case certain totems only, viz. emu, opossum, snake and bandicoot, have the privilege. The same anomaly is found in the Wonghibon tribe.
Among the Warramunga and other northern tribes Spencer and Gillen find that the division of the classes, explained in the last chapter, does not prevent marriages from taking place which this division ought to prevent, if the Arunta rule were followed. A curious feature of these marriages is that the children of the anomalous union pass into the class which would have been theirs if their mother had wedded her normal spouse. It is not easy to say whether this should be regarded as a survival of matrilineal descent; it is, however, clear that only the existence of phratriac names enables us to say definitely that the descent in this tribe is in the male line.
According to the information printed by Mr R. H. Mathews this irregularity is by no means the sum total of anomalies.
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- Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia , pp. 150 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010