Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia. by THOMAS, Northcote W - 1966

Humanities Press, 1966. 163 pp., hardcover, very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Humanities Press, 1966. hardcover. Good. . Cover and edges shows minor shelf wear. Edges shows minor foxing. Pages shows light tanning.

New York: The Humanities Press, 1966. Hardcover. xiv, 157p., illustrated with tables (one a fold-out on onion-skin), charts and line maps, a reprint of the 1906 issue, photo-copied nicely. Hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch green cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the plain printed dust jacket. Dust jacket is faintly dust-soiled with an inch-long closed tear repair, book itself has lost a touch of color, this is a very good copy: sound, otherwise clean, and unmarked.

Paperback / softback. New.

London England: Frank Cass and Co Limited, 1906. Northcote W. Thomas was an acknowledged expert on Australia and wrote many works on the various tribes who originally inhabited that continent. In this present work, first published in 1906, he is concerned with kinship groups and the marriage regulations based on them. He discusses the social organization of various tribes in relation to the descent of kinship from its original and primitive form, devoting one chapter to the definition of the many groups that existed within the tribes, such as the subtribes, local groups, phratries, classes and totem kins. He goes on to consider, among other things, phratry names, the origin of phratries, class names, the various theories of the origin of classes, kinship terms, types of sexual union, group marriage, the complicated distinction between the pirrauru and tippa - malku unions, wife lending, and initiation ceremonies. The reissue of this valuable survey of Australian tribal life, must be welcomed by… Read More

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London England: Frank Cass and Co Limited, 1906. Northcote W. Thomas was an acknowledged expert on Australia and wrote many works on the various tribes who originally inhabited that continent. In this present work, first published in 1906, he is concerned with kinship groups and the marriage regulations based on them. He discusses the social organization of various tribes in relation to the descent of kinship from its original and primitive form, devoting one chapter to the definition of the many groups that existed within the tribes, such as the subtribes, local groups, phratries, classes and totem kins. He goes on to consider, among other things, phratry names, the origin of phratries, class names, the various theories of the origin of classes, kinship terms, types of sexual union, group marriage, the complicated distinction between the pirrauru and tippa - malku unions, wife lending, and initiation ceremonies. The reissue of this valuable survey of Australian tribal life, must be welcomed by… Read More

Frank Cass, 1966. 2nd edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/G+. xiv+163pp, folding table, index, Facsimile reprint of the 1906 edition. Detailed anthropological study of the Kinship groups and the marriage regulations these groups necessitate among the Australian Aborigines.

London England: Frank Cass and Co Limited, 1906. Northcote W. Thomas was an acknowledged expert on Australia and wrote many works on the various tribes who originally inhabited that continent. In this present work, first published in 1906, he is concerned with kinship groups and the marriage regulations based on them. He discusses the social organization of various tribes in relation to the descent of kinship from its original and primitive form, devoting one chapter to the definition of the many groups that existed within the tribes, such as the subtribes, local groups, phratries, classes and totem kins. He goes on to consider, among other things, phratry names, the origin of phratries, class names, the various theories of the origin of classes, kinship terms, types of sexual union, group marriage, the complicated distinction between the pirrauru and tippa - malku unions, wife lending, and initiation ceremonies. The reissue of this valuable survey of Australian tribal life, must be welcomed by… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.