Southern Anthropology — a History of Fison and Howitt’s Kamilaroi and Kurnai

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: The Publication of Kamilaroi and Kurnai....Pages 3-15
Morgan: Imagining Kinship....Pages 16-24
The Unity of World Kinship: A Southern Perspective....Pages 25-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
The Apocalypse in the South: Fison in Victoria and Fiji....Pages 43-57
Twice Converted: Fison’s Epiphany....Pages 58-71
Cracks in the Theory: The Problems of the Pacific....Pages 72-86
Fison’s Fiji Discovery and the Interpretation of Kinship History....Pages 87-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Seeing Gamilaraay....Pages 103-115
Evidence and Anomalies from Australian and Pacific Sites....Pages 116-131
Howitt and Tulaba....Pages 132-155
The Turn from Kin to Skin....Pages 156-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Time, Human Difference and Evolution in Oceania....Pages 177-192
Pen to Paper: Writing Kamilaroi and Kurnai....Pages 193-211
Kamilaroi and Kurnai: The Content and the Form....Pages 212-228
The Anthropology of Kinship in Kamilaroi and Kurnai....Pages 229-249
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
The British Response to Kamilaroi and Kurnai....Pages 253-269
The Legacy of Kamilaroi and Kurnai in the Anthropology of Kinship....Pages 270-283
Conclusion: Southern Anthropology....Pages 284-290
Back Matter....Pages 291-329