The first AustKin project (AustKin I) collected a large database of kinship terms from Aboriginal languages all over Australia, endeavouring to maintain standards of spelling, kin formulae and group identities, without losing the details of original sources used. An online geospatial interface has been used to map distributions of forms of terms and their polysemies or equations. The patterns o...

This paper discusses how a social system based on bilateral and non-hierarchical kinship is able to establish and maintain systems of authority. The Muga Lahu in Yunnan practise a bilateral and non-lineal kinship system based on the gender equality principle, and communal life is also based on equal couples’ kinship networking, bound to non-lineal ties through marriage. The Lahu here never prac...

We explore if traditional sharing norms in extended kinship systems distort consumption and accumulation decisions of poor black households in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. Our results suggest households try to evade their “sharing obligations” by (i) accumulating durables that are non-sharable at the expense of durables that may be shared, (ii) increasing consumption of non-durables, and (iii) ...

This article discusses the harmonization of kinship Christian-Muslim Toraja in cultural values Tongkonan, and philosophy misa 'kada dipotuo, pantan kada dipomate. The purpose this study is to analyze relationship that maintained harmonious Toraja. research qualitative research, with a phenomenological historical approach. author collects data through observation, interviews, literature review c...

Kinship for First Nations people is a fundamental, yet complex, element of one's culture, enabling both belonging and relationality, extending beyond blood family relations. also recognized as important within out-of-home care (OOHC) systems, with kinship being the predominant OOHC placement type in Australia (AIHW, 2021). However, when children young are removed by state, placed into OOHC, it ...