Names and Substance of the Australian Subsection System - Hardcover

Von Brandenstein, C. G.

 
9780226864815: Names and Substance of the Australian Subsection System

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In this volume, which has been hailed as a major breakthrough in understanding the meaning of the elaborate kinship systems currently existing in Australian Aboriginal societies, C. G. von Brandenstein argues that such systems refer to an archaic theory of "world order" common to all these societies. This controversial conclusion is based on native testimony and on a sophisticated linguistic analysis of a vast quantity of data collected by the author and others.

Though the author has restricted the results of his research to Aboriginal Australia, his methodological approach is generalizable. Hence this work will be of importance to specialists in many areas.

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C. G. von Brandenstein, now retired, was lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

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