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N. W. Thomas (1868-1936) was one of the first government
anthropologists of the colonial era and published one of the first
studies of central African languages. This book, written in the
early stages of his career, is a study of kinship structures in
indigenous Australian peoples, and was first published as part of
the Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series in 1906.
Thomas develops and defines fundamental anthropological concepts
used today - such as consanguinity as a distinct term affecting
descent, status and duties in a society - and emphasises the
importance of seeing kinship terms as a social description, instead
of merely describing biological relationships. His deconstruction
of Lewis H. Morgan's theory of social evolution is also of interest
for constructing a historiography of social anthropology. This
volume contains views on ethnicity which were acceptable at the
time it was first published.
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