Native title and the descent of rights : kinship, descent and Aboriginal land tenure, and, families of polity : post-classical Aboriginal society and native title / Peter Sutton.

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Publication details:
Perth : NNTT, 1998.
Record id:
22770
Author:
Sutton, Peter.
Australia. National Native Title Tribunal. 
Subject:
Native title (Australia)
Aboriginal Australians.
Land tenure -- Australia.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Kinship, descent and Aboriginal land tenure: The Kinship polity
Was kinship the polity?
Basic conventions and terminology
Visual symbols
Kin term semantics
Actual and classificatory kin
Primary and extended meanings
Ego and propositus
Technical terminology and the descent of rights
Parentage and gender
Filiation
Descent
Descent and filiation in Australian land claims
Complementary filiation
Mother's side, father's side
Parallel v cross kin and marriage
Clans
Mariliny v matrifiliation
Direct matrifilial classes
Indirect matrifilial classes
More on cognatic descent groups
Surname groups
Blood and bloodlines
Freedom of choice
The Basic transformation
Future directions
Chapter 2. Families of polity : Aboriginal society and native title: Introduction
Families
Part 1. Post-classical Aboriginal social organisation
1. The Families
2. Tribal membership
3. Choice
4. Membership criteria
5. Cognatic group structure
6. Transformations in local organisation
7. Stratification
8. Post-classical kinship, personal address and reference
Part 2. Case material: New South Wales
Victoria
Lower Murray and Adelaide region
Western Australia
Central Australia
Top End : the Larrakia Group
Cape York Peninsula
South-east Queensland.
ISBN:
0642365059
Phys. description:
142 p.