Alyawarra Ethnographic Archive -- Post-Fieldwork TOC

Post-Fieldwork TOC

Dissertation

The Detection of Patterns in Alyawarra Nonverbal Behavior (2.32MB)

Methods

Findings

Population Properties of Physical Groups among the Alyawarra Tribe of Central Australia (976KB)
Population Structure, Infant Transport and Infanticide among Pleistocene and Modern Hunter-Gatherers (154KB)
Infant Transport among the Alyawarra Tribe of Central Australia (721KB)
Exchange Concerning Infant Transport Article with L. R. Hiatt (80.4KB)
Dreaming, Singing, Teaching

1. Introduction (412KB)
2. Dreaming (1.36MB)
3. Singing (1.99MB)
4. Teaching (2.56MB)

Alyawarra Music at Gurlanda Camp (408KB)
Double Helix Kinship Paper

Aranda and Alyawarra Kinship: A Quantitative Argument for a Double Helix Model with J. Atkins and C. McDaniel (427KB)
Double Helix Exchanges with J. R. Atkins (702KB)
Double Helix Exchanges with D. R. White (523KB)
Theory and Method in Social Anthropology: On the Structures of Systems of Kin Classification by H. Scheffler (262KB)
Double Helix Debate (this content has been blocked for copyright reasons)

Comments on the Double Helix Kinship Model by H. Scheffler
The Authors Reply to Scheffler with J. Atkins and C. McDaniel
Aranda and Alyawarra by D. Turner
More on the Double-Helix Kinship Model with J. Atkins
Helices and Paradigms
CA* Comment RE: J.R. Martin, Genealogical Structures and Consanguineous Marriage with J. Atkins
Twenty-Five Years of Aboriginal Kinship Studies by I Keen

Age Metrics Paper (this content has been blocked for copyright reasons)

Prelude to Age Metrics by JR Atkins, J Rustad and FTS Fat

Age Metrics and Twisted Cylinders: Predictions from a Structural Model by FTS Fat (2.31MB)

Wikmunkan papers (this content has been blocked for copyright reasons)

Social organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula by U McConnel (3.37MB)
Junior Marriage Systems by U McConnel (4.96MB)

History of Age Biased Kinship Models (sketch) (this content has been blocked for copyright reasons)
Marriage Networks among Australian Aboriginal Populations by M Houseman (3.21MB)
Three Logics of Alyawarra Kinship with D. R. White (2.28MB)
Multiple Measures of Alyawarra Kinship with D. R. White (this content has been blocked for copyright reasons)
- The Multiple Measures paper (1.62MB)
- Additional graphics set (1.48MB)
Discovering Latent Classes in Relational Data by C. Kemp, T. L Griffiths & J. B. Tenenbaum; MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, AI Memo 2004-019 (September 2004) (392KB)
Casual Groups of Monkeys and Australian Aborigines (198KB)

In preparation 2007 and beyond.

Alyawarra Descent, Marriage, Kinship and Census Data 1818-1979

Codebook and Data Summary Draft

Expanded Alyawarra Numerical Dataset Draft

Public version without names (Pending)

Restricted version with names (Pending)

The Classificatory Kinship Page Draft by D.R. White

Seeking Behavioral Complexity in an Australian Aboriginal Kinship System Draft PowerPoint presentation

Willi-Willis Dancing on the Sand

The Indigenous Australian Marriage Paradox with Douglas R. White.

Proposal for Alyawarra Data Integration First draft by W. Denham (Pending)

Aboriginal Land Rights (194KB)

Initial Request from Aboriginal Land Rights Commission by A. Woodward
Initial reply to Aboriginal Land Rights Commission
Comments on the first report from the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission
Statement on Aboriginal Affairs

Book Reviews

Review of Australian Aboriginal Social Organization by D. Turner
Review of Tribes and Boundaries in Australia by N. Peterson
Review of Daughters of the Dream by D. Bell
Review of Alyawarra Music: Songs and Society in a Central Australian Community by R. Moyle
Review of Arguments about Aborigines by L. R. Hiatt

Uniformity

Two Millennia of Natura non Facit Saltum is Enough (final version) (257KB)
On Uniformity in Sociohistory (early version) (290KB)
CA* Exchange: On Uniformity in Sociohistory (exchanges with C. Belshaw, CA Editor) (312KB)

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