TY  - BOOK
AU  - McKnight,David
TI  - Going the Whiteman's way: kinship and marriage among Australian Aborigines 
T2  - Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
SN  - 0754642380 (alk. paper)
AV  - GN666 .M29 2004
U1  - 306.810899915 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Marriage customs and rites
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; The historical background and social setting --; 2; Paternal relations --; 3; Maternal relations --; 4; Affinal relations --; 5; Wrong marriages and changes in relationships --; 6; Classes and totems --; 7; Subsection membership and identity --; 8; Through the mother and through the father --; 9; The marriage dispute of Ian James and Evelyn Peters part I --; 10; The marriage dispute of Ian James and Evelyn Peters part II --; 11; Bestowal : fathers and mothers --; 12; Marriage arrangements and disputes --; 13; Conclusions
N2  - "This intellectual tour de force combines dense ethnography about Australian kinship and marriage - the heart of their world - with major anthropological debate about theories of kinship. It thereby provides a unique and important contribution to kinship studies." "McKnight shows how young Aborigines became increasingly determined to marry according to their own inclinations, defying the authority of the elders, who accused them of 'going the Whiteman's Way'."--BOOK JACKET
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