Kinship and behaviour in North Queensland : a preliminary account of kinship and social organization on Cape York Peninsula / Donald F. Thomson ; foreword, afterword and editing by H.W. Scheffler
- Bib ID:
- 1216729
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Thomson, Donald F. (Donald Fergusson), 1901-1970
- Description:
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- Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1972
- viii, 59 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 085575026X
- Series:
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- Australian aboriginal studies ; no. 51.
- Social anthropology series ; no. 7.
- Summary:
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Covers area north of line from Endeavour River at Cooktown to Mitchell River on Gulf of Carpentaria, map shows tribal groups; based on field work 1928, 1929 and 1932-33; p.1-2; Briefly describes coastal terrain of Koko Yas & Ompela, inland country of Wik Mongkan & Kandju, local organisation, clans, government, moieties (except Wik Mungkan), personal totemism; p.3-14; Ompela - location, table shows classification, differences from other Australian systems noted, marriage relationships, betrothal & changes in designation required by marriage (betrothal ceremony described, removal of motherinlaw avoidance,; terms of address, table of changes given), other designations (nicknames, special status terms), kinship and behaviour (instruction, discipline, joking, freedom of behaviour, gifts); p.15-20; Wik-Mongkan - location, table of kin classification, marriage, kin terminology, choice of spouse, behaviour; p.21-23; Tjungundji - marriage system, behaviour, table of kin classification, classification by age and maturity; p.24-26; Wutati - location, Papuan influences in religious beliefs, moieties, clans, marriages rules, table of kin classification, behaviour; p.27; Summary and conclusions; p.28-36; Appendices - I, Yintjinga kin classification, Wik Alkan kin classification, Wik Ngatara, Koko Minjena kin classification; II, Curriculum vitae published work; Afterword by H.W. Scheffler - Wik Mongkan kinship, polysemy, structural analysis (comparison with terminology used in Wik Mongkan mourning), parent and child categories, grandparent terms, classification of cross cousins, descent lines and kinship; charts, alternate generations; Koko Minjena system, marriage; Selection of D.F. Thomsons photographs of Cape York Aborigines.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 58-59.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians. Kinship. Queensland. Cape York Peninsula. Research reports
- Aboriginal Australians. Social organisation. Queensland. Cape York Peninsula. Research reports
- Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula -- Kinship
- Kinship -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula
- Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula -- Social life and customs
- Social structure
- Family - Mothers in law
- Umpila people (Y45) (Qld SD54-08)
- Death - Mourning
- Gugu Yau people (Y22) (Qld SD54-04)
- Ganganda people (Y138) (Qld SD54-12)
- Social organisation - Relationships - Joking
- Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms
- Language - Vocabulary - Nicknames
- Gender relations - Betrothal
- Tjungundji people (Y14) (Qld SD54-03)
- Wik Mungkan people (Y57) (Qld SD54-07)
- Language - Vocabulary - Human classification
- Kaanju / Kaantju language (Y44) (Qld SD54-08)
- Religion - Totemism
- Wik Ngatharr people (Y51) (Qld SD54-07)
- Wik Elken people (Y49) (Qld SD54-07)
- Social organisation - Avoidance rules - Avoidance relationships
- Wuthathi people (Y10) (Qld SC54-16)
- Yir Yoront people (Y72) (Qld SD54-15)
- Family - Cousins
- Indigenous peoples - Pacific - Papuans
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Moieties
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Family - Grandparents
- Cooktown (Qld SE Cape York SD55-13)
- Queensland Gulf country (Qld SE54)
- Endeavour River (Qld SE Cape York SD55-13)
- Mitchell River (Qld Gulf, NW Cape York SD54-15, SD54-16, SE54-06, SE55-01)
- Gulf of Carpentaria (SD53, SD54, SE54)
- Papua New Guinea (PNG)
- Mitchell River (Qld NW Cape York SD54, SE54, SE55)
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