Kinship Systems

Patrick McConvell is a linguist and anthropologist who has carried out research in several areas of Australia. A research fellow at the Australian National University, he is coeditor of Archaeology and Linguistics and author of a number of articles on kinship and kinship change. Together with co-editors Keen and Hendery he has worked on the AustKin project in recent years. Ian Keen is an anthropologist of Australian indigenous societies at the Australian National University. Author of Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion and Aboriginal Economy and Society, he is a specialist in kinship and marriage studies. Rachel Hendery is a post-doctoral fellow at The Australian National University. She is coeditor of Grammatical Change: Theory and Description and author of Relative Clauses in Time and Space: A Case Study in the Methods of Diachronic Typology.

List of Figures List of Tables 1. Introduction: Kinship Change in Anthropology and Linguistics - Patrick McConvell 2. Kinship Terms: Typology and History - David B. Kronenfeld 3. Comparative Phylogenetic Methods and the Study of Pattern and Process in Kinship - Fiona Jordan 4. Reconstructing the Proto-Polynesian Terminology: Kinship Terminologies as Evolving Logical Structures - Dwight Read 5. On Husband-Borrowing: The Linguistic Reconstruction of Ancient Yukatekan Marriage Practices - Eve Danziger 6. Kin Terminologies as Linguistic Imprints of Regional Processes: The Socio-ecological Contexts of Close versus Distant Marriage Patterns in Indigenous Amazonia - Alf Hornborg 7. The Evolution of the Yolngu and Ngarinyin Kinship Terminologies: Models of Cumulative Transformations - Ian Keen 8. The Reconstruction of Kinship Terminology in the Arandic Languages of Australia - Harold Koch 9. Desertification of an Arandic Dialect - Barry Alpher 10. Proto-Pama-Nyungan Kinship and the AUSTKIN Project: Reconstructing Terms for Proto-Mother's Father and their Transformations - Patrick McConvell 11. Mama and Papa in Indigenous Australia - Rachel Hendery and Patrick McConvell 12. Comparing Recordings of Warumungu Kinship Systems - Jane Simpson List of Contributors Index

"A much-needed volume in the revival of kinship analysis and of great importance to all that specialize in this field. I was very impressed with the high level of scholarship."-Bojka Milicic, coeditor of Kinship, Language, and Prehistory: Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies (The University of Utah Press, 2010)