Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia
                                            
                            By Northcote Whitridge Thomas
                            
                                15 Oct, 2018                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        The tribe is defined by American anthropologists as a union of hordes or clans for common defense under a chief. The American tribe differs in two respects, at least, from the Australian tribe; in the first place, marriage outside the tribe is except
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                                                The tribe is defined by American anthropologists as a union of hordes or clans for common defense under a chief. The American tribe differs in two respects, at least, from the Australian tribe; in the first place, marriage outside the tribe is exceptional in America and common in Australia; in the second place, the stranger gains entrance to the American tribe only by adoption; and we may probably add, thirdly, that the American tribe does not invariably lay claim to landed property or hunting rights. Less