Miwuyt marriage : social structural aspects of the bestowal of females in northeast Arnhem Land
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1969
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Shapiro, Warren
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This work deals with certain aspects of the social organization
of the Aborigines of northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory —
the people Lloyd Warner (1930-31* 1937) called "Murngin.” It is not
primarily directed at resolving any of the narrower issues of the
11 Mur ng in Controversy” (Leach 196lb:68j see esp. Barnes 1967)* though
it does present material which can be used for this purpose — or,
more precisely, which indicates that most of the controversy has
revolved around questions which are more or less moot. Much of this
material is novel, as regards both what has so far been written
about northeast Arnhem Land in particular and what we know about
prescriptive marriage systems in general, but neither is the presentation
of exotic ethnography the major goal of this work.
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