Abstract
Godelier is one of a line of anthropologists who have speculated that the Dravidian kinship system was the earliest in Australia, but others have diverged from this pattern. The evidence for or against this hypothesis has never been mustered to provide a rigorous test. In this chapter we hope to begin this task by looking at two regions in Australia that appear to provide an wxample of what might have been in early Kariera (Dravidian symmetrical) system (eastern Cape York Peninsula) and what might have been a later development of this system, a Karadjeri (asymmetrical matrilateral) system among the Yolngu people of North-East Arnham Land.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Kinship, Language, and Prehistory: Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies |
| Editors | Doug Jones, Bojka Milicic |
| Place of Publication | U.S. |
| Publisher | University of Utah Press |
| Pages | 99-116 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781607819752 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781607810056 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Keywords
- anthropology
- kinship
- civilization, Dravidian