Patriclan Subsets of the Ashburton River District in Western Australia

In this chapter, I discuss certain anthropological and linguistic records from the Ashburton River district of the Pilbara region of Western Australia (see Figure 23). My focus is on several authors’ descriptions of subgroupings of descent-based totemic clans—subsets that they variously named ‘phrat...

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Zusammenfassung:In this chapter, I discuss certain anthropological and linguistic records from the Ashburton River district of the Pilbara region of Western Australia (see Figure 23). My focus is on several authors’ descriptions of subgroupings of descent-based totemic clans—subsets that they variously named ‘phratries’ (Bates 1913), ‘inter-tribal totemic divisions’ (Radcliffe-Brown 1931) and ‘totem classes’ (Austin 1992a–e, 2012). The information left to us regarding these subsets is limited and no longer being socially reproduced. For this reason, we have a small and closed corpus of evidence about them. Their unusual features, though, make it worthwhile for this paper to attempt