Close–Distant
An Essential Dichotomy in Australian Kinship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20065840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tony Jefferies (Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 363-390 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Skin, Kin and Clan (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | ANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.22459/skc.04.2018.11 |
| OpenAlex | W2795402272 |
| ISBN | 9781760461638 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
This chapter looks at the evidence for the close-distant dichotomy in the kinship systems of Australian Aboriginal societies. The closedistant dichotomy operates on two levels. It is the distinction familiar to Westerners from their own culture between close and distant relatives: those we have frequent contact with as opposed to those we know about but rarely, or never, see. In Aboriginal societies, there is a further distinction: those with whom we share our quotidian existence, and those who live at some physical distance, with whom we feel a social and cultural commonality, but also a decided sense of difference. This chapter gathers a substantial body of evidence to indicate that distance, both physical and genealogical, is a conception intrinsic to the Indigenous understanding of the function and purpose of kinship systems. Having done so, it explores the implications of the close-distant dichotomy for the understanding of pre-European Aboriginal societies in general-in other words: if the dichotomy is a key factor in how Indigenes structure their society, what does it say about the limits and integrity of the societies that employ that kinship system
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |