[DOWNLOAD] "Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia" by Northcote Whitridge Thomas " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia
- Author : Northcote Whitridge Thomas
- Release Date : January 01, 1936
- Genre: Family & Relationships,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 247 KB
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This book, written in the early stages of his career is a study of kinship structures in indigenous Australian peoples and was first published as part of the Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series in 1906. Thomas develops and defines fundamental anthropological concepts used today such as consanguinity as a distinct term affecting descent status and duties in a society and emphasises the importance of seeing kinship terms as a social description instead of merely describing biological relationships. His deconstruction of Lewis H. Morgan's theory of social evolution is also of interest for constructing a historiography of social anthropology.