Whatever Happened to the Mother? A New Look at the Old Problem of the Mother's Brother in Three New Guinea Societies: Gimi, Daribi, and Iatmul.

Kinship systems cannot be analysed as straightforward translations of the 'facts of nature' when those facts are limited to the production of a child by a heterosexual couple. Based upon analyses of three New Guinea societies ( Gimi, Daribi, and Iatmul), I suggest that kinship systems take account -...

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Published in:	Oceania Vol. 86; no. 1; pp. 2 - 25
Main Author:	Gillison, Gillian
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Mar2016
Subjects:	Kinship Human reproduction Sexual intercourse Social conditions of Indigenous peoples Rites & ceremonies Parturition Iatmul (Papua New Guinean people)
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