Some puzzling dualistic classifications in New South Wales
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2889341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alain Testart (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 136 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-89 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-90003538 |
| OpenAlex | W2065759744 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The existence of dualistic classifications of people and nature into moieties in Australia has been well-known since the beginning of anthropological work there in the 19th century. Around 1900 Mathews recorded another division that is widespread in New South Wales: all tribal people here are divided into two categories which are referred to by terms which can be translated as sluggish, thick or dark blood and quick, thin or light blood respectively. Some 20 years later Radcliffe-Brown confirmed the existence of this division and discovered
Division (mathematics · Economic geography · Genealogy · Geography · Sociology · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Mathematics · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
The totemic divisions of Australian tribes
Notes on Some Tribes of New South Wales
Notes on the Social Organization of Australian Tribes
Further Notes on the Social Organization of the Wongaibon of Western New South Wales
Marriage, Circumcision and Avoidance among the Maljangaba of North-west New South Wales
Two Representative Tribes of Queensland
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |