Table des matières
Introduction
The purpose of this book and how to read it
Part one: A historical and ethnographic overview
- The notion of culture
- What are hunter-gatherer societies?
- Food production and storage
- Political system
- Division of labour
- Residence and demography
- Kin-based societies
- The Ngaatjatjarra
- Coming into being
- A historical perspective
- Language, the unifying criterion
- Western Desert dialects
- Summary and conclusion of Part One
Conclusion
The concept of relatedness
Glossary
- Absolute terms
- Affinal
- Alliance (of marriage)
- Aluridja
- Ambilineal
- Bifurcation
- Bifurcate merging
- Clan
- Classificatory (terms)
- Cognatic descent
- Complementary filiation
- Complex exchange
- Consanguinal
- Cross-cousins
- Cultural bloc
- Demand-sharing
- Descent
- Descent group
- Descriptive (terms)
- Direct exchange
- Domestic group
- Double descent
- Dreaming / Dreamtime
- Egocentric
- Egological (context)
- Endogamy
- Ethnocentrism
- Exogamy
- Extension of range
- Filiation
- First cross-cousins
- Functionalist approach
- Genealogy
- Group marriage
- Household
- Hunter-gatherers
- Indirect exchange
- Internalisation
- Lineage
- Marriage
- Matrilineal/matrifiliation
- Mixed descent
- Monogamy
- Mularrpa
- Multiple connectedness
- Nature-nurture debate
- Nuclear family
- Parallel cousins
- Patrilineal/patrifiliation
- Polygamy
- Polyandry
- Polygyny
- Prescriptive rule
- Prohibition of incest
- Proscriptive rule
- Relatedness
- Relational triangle
- Relative terms
- Rule of economy
- Second cross-cousin
- Self-reciprocal (terms)
- Skewing
- Social category
- Socialisation
- Sociocentric
- Sociological (context)
- Structuralism
- Terminology (kinship)
- Terms of address
- Terms of reference
- Tjukurrpa
- Tribe
- Unilineal
