Figures

  1 Restricted exchange: moiety system

  2 MBD marriage: continuous exchange

  3 FZD marriage: discontinuous exchange

  4 Aranda relationship terminology

  5 Relationship between subsections among the Aranda

  6 Radcliffe-Brown’s representation of the Dieri relationship terminology

  7 Elkin’s representation of the Dieri relationship terminology

  8 Levi-Strauss’s ‘simplified’ representation of the Dieri system

  9 Reconstruction of the hypothetical evolution of the Dieri system according to Lévi-Strauss

10 Diagram of a four-line symmetric prescriptive terminology (patrilines)

11 Diagram of a four-line symmetric prescriptive terminology (matrilines)

12 Dieri relationship terminology

13 Categories of the same genealogical level and line differentiated by sex (Dieri)

14 Hypothetical distribution of Dieri categories among local groups

15 Marriage with iai, FMBSD (Iatmiil)

16 Marriage with na, FZD (Iatmiil)

17 FZD = FMBSD marriage (Iatmül)

18 Adoption of ZS (Iatmiil)

19 Sister exchange

20 FMBD marriage

21 Bateson’s diagram of the Iatmül relationship terminology

22 The Iatmül relationship terminology

23 Hypothetical asymmetric (‘matrilateral’) system

24 Asymmetric prescriptive system with five lines and alternation by genealogical levels

25 Consequence of repeated FMBD marriage

26 Mara relationship terminology (from Spencer and Gillen)

27 Mara relationship terminology (from Warner)

28 Difference between the Kariera and the Mara divisions

29 The prescribed category in alternating systems