Leiden anthropology and the reinterpretation of Australian Aboriginal social organization

According to the "rules" of "kin" classification given by Rose, WBWB was equated with brother, WBW was equated with sister and ZHZ was equated with wife. Because the Aranda require at least four intermarrying clans to operate their system, it is generally assumed that they are a better integrated society than the Kariera, who require only two. The Aranda, for example, with their four groupings of totemically-linked clans, have l social ties to a quarter of the people in their universe; the Kariera, with their dual organization, have ties to half in theirs. [...]what an Aranda gains by way of more extensive marriage ties, s/he loses by way of a restricted totemic brotherhood network, relative to a Kariera; and what a Kariera gains through more extensive ties of brotherhood, s/he loses by way of a more restricted set of ties through marriage, relative to an Aranda. [...]that these systems are better understood, we can see that a division internal to one patri-group would occur within al1 other patri-groups to which it is totemically linked. [...]within the Kariera framework of two "brotherhoods" and direct exchange between the Same two patri-groups every generation, a four section system would be formed were the members of alternate generations to be grouped together int0 one category within the patri-group.