Variation in Australian Sibling Terminologies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7936375 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Keen (Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-70 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oceania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-8077 • E-ISSN: 1834-4461 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ocea.5424 |
| OpenAlex | W4409519073 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
Standard typologies of Australian Aboriginal kinship systems recognize half a dozen main types of kin terminology. An examination of sibling terminologies recorded in the Austkin database, however, reveals much more variation in the forms of kin classification than is implied by those typologies. The article examines diversity in the forms of sibling terminologies, their relationship to the broad types of kin terminologies and the languages in which they appear, and the spatial distribution of these patterns. In a notable feature, the distribution of forms of kin terminologies tends to cut across language boundaries. The general picture is one of considerable variation, reflecting the age and variety of Australian languages
Astronomy · Biology · Evolutionary biology · Genealogy · Geography · Physics · Sibling · Sociology · Variation (astronomy) · Anthropology · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · linguistics and terminology studies
Aboriginal tribes of Australia
The Australian aborigines
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The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
Pama–Nyungan grandparent systems change with grandchildren, but not cross-cousin terms or social norms
The Native Tribes of South-East Australia
The Elementary Structures of Kinship
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Kinship in South Australia
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Australian Linguistic Studies
Proto-Australian
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Definitions of Kin
Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan
Patterns of Sibling Terminology
The Legacy of Radcliffe-Brown's Typology of Australian Aboriginal Kinship Systems
Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion
The Nayars and the Definition of Marriage
How Some Murngin Men Marry Ten Wives
Australian Kin Classification
Manual for Kinship Analysis
Sibling Terminology and Cross-Sex Behavior1
Context, Culture, and Structuration in the Languages of Australia
The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies
Accounting for context and substance
Universal systems of kin categorization
Kinship and Context among the Ngarinyin
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |