Fuary, Maureen M. (1983) Book review of "The Affinal Relationship System: a new approach to kinship and marriage among the Australian Aborigines at Port Keats" by Aslaug Falkenberg and Johannes Falkenberg, Oslo Studies in Social Anthropology No. 1. Ethnographic Museum, University of Oslo, Norway. Mankind, 14 (2). pp. 148-149.

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Abstract

The Affinal Relationship System represents both a reworking and extended analysis of an earlier (1962), publication Kin & Totem based on anthropological fieldwork carried out by the authors at Port Keats (NT) in 1950. They make no excuses for their departure from some of their earlier claims made in Kin & Totem, openly admitting that so powerful was Radcliffe-Brown's influence in anthropology at that time, that they (albeit unwillingly) straightjacketed their data into this model of Aboriginal social organization. In this later publication, they argue that among the Murinbata at least, genealogical links do not form the basis of the kinship system as maintained by Radcliffe-Brown, but that rather it is the affinal relationship system which is the major organizing principle.

Item ID:	18943
Item Type:	Article (Book Review)
ISSN:	1757-6547
Additional Information:	'Mankind' is now known as the The Australian Journal of Anthropology.
Date Deposited:	27 Jun 2012 06:15
FoR Codes:	16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1601 Anthropology > 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology @ 20% 16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1699 Other Studies in Human Society > 169902 Studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Society @ 80%
SEO Codes:	97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society @ 80% 95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9599 Other Cultural Understanding > 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified @ 20%
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