ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA ART & CULTURE
CENTRE - ALICE SPRINGS
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OUR
FAMILY SYSTEM / SKIN NAMES
In our family, or kinship systems, we recognise our relations "by
blood" and by marriage as in other societies. We also regard
ourselves as being related (although not biologically or by marriage)
to all the people within our cultural or linguistic region. Our kinship
system group various categories of relations together as a sort of
"mental map" so we know who we are related to , and how
we should behave towards each other. The whole cultural group may
be divided into two, four, six or eight sections.
