What Is 'Kariera'? Detecting Systems and Overlap in Australian Kinship Using the AustKin Database

dc.contributor.authorMcConvell, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorHendery, Rachael
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-18T03:06:11Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.updated2019-05-12T08:16:30Z
dc.description.abstractRadcliffe-Brown introduced the concept of a ‘Kariera’ type of kinship system in proposing his highly influential typology of Australian social organization, building on his earlier reports of fieldwork in the Pilbara of northern Western Australia, in which the Kariera (Kariyarra) people were taken to represent a widespread type. Radcliffe-Brown’s and other typologies of Australian kinship have generally disregarded the universalist categorizations (going back to Fison and Howitt’s assignment of Karieratype systems to the Dravidian category), in favour of a scheme based on Australia alone. In the spirit of Radcliffe-Brown’s typology, we propose a diagnostic pattern of kinship term equivalences for grandkin such as FF = MMB (father’s father is equivalent to mother’s mother’s brother), which can be operationalized in search-map routines of a database known as AustKin and closely approximates to the set of systems generally recognized as ‘Kariera’. However another property of many Kariera grandkin systems which has been claimed to be criterial by some scholars – equivalence between grandkin and grandchild generations (+2 and −2), or Alternate Generation Equivalence – is shown to be more widespread than Kariera and independent of it. With regard to the −1 generation (children and niblings), the pattern among the Kariyarra and more generally in the western Pilbara and Western Desert (where ‘son’ and ‘daughter’ are distinguished) is radically different from the pattern found in the other ‘Kariera’ systems across the rest of the continent, (where ‘woman’s child’ vs. ‘man’s child’ is the prime distinction). This prompts analysis of the child patterns as independent of the Kariera system. This article also shows how the Kariera system is independent of the four-section system with which it has been claimed to be related functionally, with sections being a later development. We also encounter overlaps, where more than one equivalence pattern intersect in one language, and overlays, where the variation between more than one equivalence also has social contextual functions. Examples of overlaps analysed here are (1) between Kariera and Aluridja (the Western Desert pattern with cross-parallel neutralization); and (2) between Kariera and a more radical kind of Alternate Generation Equivalence, where parallel grandkin and grandchildren kin-types are called siblings (generation 0)
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dc.identifier.issn0029-8077en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/186136
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherOceania Publicationsen_AU
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0878556en_AU
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP120100632en_AU
dc.rights© 2017 Oceania Publicationsen_AU
dc.sourceOceaniaen_AU
dc.titleWhat Is 'Kariera'? Detecting Systems and Overlap in Australian Kinship Using the AustKin Databaseen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage208en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage188en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationMcConvell, Patrick, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationHendery, Rachael, Western Sydney Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidMcConvell, Patrick, u4589750en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor200401 - Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguisticsen_AU
local.identifier.absseo950202 - Languages and Literacyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB6982en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume87en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1002/ocea.5155en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85018875217
local.identifier.thomsonID000406298200006
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.wiley.com/en-gben_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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