Research outputs

Publications

• Alpher, Barry. 2013 “Desertification of an Arandic dialect.” In Kinship Systems: Change and reconstruction, edited by Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, and Rachel Hendery, 187-191. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
• Denham, Woodrow W. 2011. “Familial generations tutorial.” Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory: MACT Lecture Notes and Working Papers 1:1-42. [LINK to article title: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5m51s6k6]
• Denham, Woodrow W. 2012. “Kinship, marriage and age in Aboriginal Australia.” Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory: An International Journal 4 (1): 1-80. [LINK to article title: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6xm8s89k]
• Denham, Woodrow W. 2013. “Beyond fictions of closure in Australian Aboriginal kinship.” Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory: An International Journal 5 (1): 1-90. [LINK to article title: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7d69w4sk ]
• Denham, Woodrow W. 2013. “Response to Comments on ‘Beyond Fictions of Closure in Australian Aboriginal Kinship’.” Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory: An International Journal 5 (7): 1-12. [LINK to article title: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6h7362st.pdf]
• Denham, Woodrow W. 2013. “Response to Read's comment on ‘Beyond Fictions of Closure in Australian Aboriginal Kinship’." Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory: An International Journal 5 (9): 1-11. . [LINK to article title: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4m43v3x6 ]
• Denham, Woodrow W. 2014. “Residential group compositions among the Alyawarra.” Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory: An International Journal 6 (1):1-132. [LINK to article title: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67g000jk].
• Denham, Woodrow W. 2014. “Comment on Vaz’ ‘Relatives, molecules and particles’.” Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory: An International Journal 7(4):1-3. [LINK to article title: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8cp3p35j ].
• Dousset, Laurent 2011. Australian Aboriginal Kinship: An introductory handbook with particular emphasis on the Western Desert. Marseille: pacific-credo Publications.
• Dousset, Laurent. 2013. “Evidence for Systemic Outbreeding: A Rejoinder to Denham, ‘Beyond Fictions of Closure in Australian Aboriginal Kinship’.” Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory: An International Journal 5 (2): 1-15.  [LINK to article title: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0h71p0c4.pdf]
• Dousset, Laurent. 2013. “Inclusion–Exclusion: Recasting the Issue of Boundaries for the Western Desert.” Anthropological Forum 23 (4): 1-13.
• Dousset, Laurent. 2013. “From Consanguinity to Consubstantiality: Julian Pitt-Rivers’ ‘The Kith and the Kin’.” Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences 6 (1): 1-13. [LINK article title to: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4fr203tx#page-1]
• Dousset, Laurent. 2014. “From Structure to Substance and Back: Materialities in Australian Aboriginal Kinship.” In Australian Aboriginal Anthropology Today: Critical Perspectives from Europe. Accessed 12 August. http://actesbranly.revues.org/565.
• Dousset, Laurent 2015. « De l’humanisation de la géographie : conceptions et organisations foncières dans le Désert de l’Ouest australien ». In C. Travesi & M. Ponsonnet (eds), Les conceptions de la propriété foncière à l’épreuve des revendications autochtones : possession, propriété et leurs avatars. Marseille : pcp, p. 95-115.
• Dousset, Laurent 2016. « Parenté, territoire et démographie ». In M. Jeudy-Ballini (éd.), Le monde en mélanges. Textes offerts à Maurice Godelier. Paris: CNRS Editions, p. 297-317.
• Dousset, Laurent, Rachel Hendery, Claire Bowern, Harold Koch, and Patrick McConvell. 2010. “Developing a Database for Australian Indigenous Kinship Terminology: The AustKin Project.” Australian Aboriginal Studies 1: 42–56.
• Hendery, Rachel and McConvell, Patrick. 2013. “Mama and papa in indigenous Australia.” In Kinship Systems: Change and reconstruction, edited by Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, and Rachel Hendery, 217-238. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
• Keen, Ian. 2013. “The Legacy of Radcliffe-Brown’s Typology of Australian Aboriginal Kinship Systems.” Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences 6 (1): 1-31. [LINK to article title: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3xp687g1]
• Keen, Ian. 2013. “The evolution of Yolngu and Ngarinyin kinship terminologies.” In Kinship Systems: Change and reconstruction, edited by Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, and Rachel Hendery, 132-162. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
• Koch, Harold. 2013. “The reconstruction of kinship terminology in the Arandic languages of Australia.” In Kinship Systems: Change and reconstruction, edited by Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, and Rachel Hendery, 163-186. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
• Koch, Harold. 2014. “Loanwords between the Arandic languages and their western neighbours: principles of identification and phonological adaptation.” In Selected Papers from the 44th Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, 2013, edited by Lauren Gawne and Jill Vaughan, 311-334. Melbourne: Australian Linguistic Society.
• McConvell, Patrick. 2012. “Omaha skewing in Australia: Overlays, dynamism and change.” In Crow-Omaha: New light on a classic problem of kinship analysis, edited by Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley, 243-260. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
• McConvell, Patrick. 2013. “Granny got cross: Semantic change of kami 'mother's mother' to 'father's mother' in Pama-Nyungan.” In Lexical and Structural Etymology: Beyond Word Histories, edited by Robert Mailhammer, 147-184. Boston: Walter de Gruyter.
• McConvell, Patrick. 2013. Comment on Denham’s ‘Beyond fictions of closure in Australian Aboriginal kinship’. Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory: An International Journal 5 (3): 1-7.
• McConvell, Patrick. 2013. “Introduction: Kinship in Anthropology and Linguistics.” In Kinship Systems: Change and reconstruction, edited by Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, and Rachel Hendery, 1-18. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
• McConvell, Patrick. 2013. “Proto-Pama-Nyungan kinship and the AustKin project: Reconstructing proto-terms for ‘mother’s father’ and their transformations.” In Kinship Systems: Change and reconstruction, edited by Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, and Rachel Hendery, 192-216. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
• McConvell, Patrick, and Claire Bowern. 2011. “The Prehistory and Internal Relationships of Australian Languages: Prehistory and Internal Relationships of Australian Languages.” Language and Linguistics Compass 5 (1): 19-32.
• McConvell, Patrick, and Laurent Dousset. 2012. “Tracking the Dynamics of Kinship and Social Category Terms with AustKin II.” In Proceedings of the EACL 2012 Joint Workshop of LINGVIS & UNCLH, 98–107. Avignon: Association for Computational Linguistics.
• McConvell, Patrick, and Helen Gardner. 2013. “The Descent of Morgan in Australia: Kinship Representation from the Australian Colonies.” Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences 6 (1): 1-23. [LINK to title of article: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5711t341]
• McConvell, Patrick and Gardner, Helen. 2013. “The descent of Morgan in Australia: Kinship representation from the Australian colonies.” Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences 6 (1): 1-23. [LINK to title of article: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5711t341]
• Simpson, Jane. 2013. “Warumungu kinship over time.” In Kinship Systems: Change and reconstruction, edited by Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, and Rachel Hendery, 239-254. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Forthcoming

• McConvell, Patrick and Piers Kelly (eds). Skin, kin and clan: The dynamics of social categories in Indigenous Australia.
• McConvell, Patrick and Helen Gardner. Finding kin. Melbourne: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Koch, Harold.  “Patterns in the diffusion of nomenclature systems: Australian subsections in comparison to European days of the week”. In Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, Norway, 5-9 August 2013, edited by Dag Haug. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Conference papers and seminars

• Bowern, Claire. “Phylogenetics meets the Comparative Method: Australian Kinship,” 12 March 2014, The Australian National University.
• Dousset, Laurent. “From structure to substance and back: Materialities in Australian Aboriginal kinship.” International Symposium on Australian Aboriginal Anthropology. 22-24 January 2013. Musée du Quai Branly.
• Dousset, Laurent 2013. "The power of archives : are digital ontologies dangerous for research? / Le pouvoir des archives: les ontologies numériques sont-elles un danger pour la recherche?", Les matériaux de terrain des ethnologues en Europe / Ethnographic archives Workshop: Nanterre: LESC - MAE - Consortium des Ethnologues, 24-25 January 2013.
• Dousset, Laurent 2014. Le système de parenté australien dit « Aluridja » : de l’aberration à l'analyse contextuelle, Conférence au Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, équipe Parenté et Logiques Relationnelles: Paris: Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, p. 25 mars 2014.
• Dousset, Laurent 2014. Archiver les enquêtes collectives (table ronde avec Françoise Zonabend, Laurent Dousset, Sophie Duchesne et Serge Wolikow), Enquêtes Collectives, 25-27 juin 2014: Dijon: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
• Dousset, Laurent 2015. Matérialités de la parenté. Exemples d’Australie et du Vanuatu, Conférence au séminaire interinstitutionnel SHS/Cresica. Nouméa : Université de la Nouvelle Calédonie, 08 octobre 2015.
• Dousset, Laurent 2016. Territorialité à l’épreuve: reconnaissance étatique d’une géographie humanisée en Australie, Séminaire au Collège de France, Philippe Descola, Les usages de la terre. Cosmopolitiques de la territorialité. Paris, 07 avril 2016.
• Dousset, Laurent 2016. Austkin. Intervention invitée au Workshop Comparative Analysis of Kinship Terminologies : Problems and Perspectives, Paris, LAS, 13 avril 2016.
• Dousset, Laurent 2016. The fallacy of symmetry, or how Australian Aboriginal people think of kinship differently. Hambourg: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Hamburg University, 8 november 2016.
• Dousset, Laurent 2016. Digital science: dangers and opportunities for the social sciences and humanities (part 1). Seminario di anthropologia, Verona, Università degli Studi di Verona, 1 décembre 2016.
• Dousset, Laurent 2016. Digital science: dangers and opportunities for the social sciences and humanities (part 2). Seminario di anthropologia, Padova, Università degli Studi di Padova, 2 décembre 2016.
• Dousset, Laurent 2016. Certains concepts sont plus efficaces que d’autres. Autonomie et développement dans le Désert de l'Ouest australien ». in L. Dousset et E. Fache (organisé par), Conceptologies environnementales : ce que les notions font aux pratiques. Journées d’étude: Marseille: Aix-Marseille University, EHESS, 5-6 mars 2015.
• Dousset, Laurent 2016. Langages de la parenté : parole en contexte, parole sollicitée/élicitée, in L. Dousset (organisé par), Langue en contexte. Journée d’étude : Marseille : Aix-Marseille Université, EHESS, 29 mai 2015.
• Dousset, Laurent 2016. The dangers of mathematical beauty: are “pure forms” of Australian hunter-gatherer kinship systems really old?, in CHAGS 11. Vienna: CHAGS conference, 7-11 September 2015.
• Kelly, Piers. “What is a ‘tribe’?: Changing conceptualisations of Aboriginal social organisation from Howitt & Fison to AustKin 2.” Australian Anthropological Society Conference, 6-8 November 2013, Canberra.
• Koch, Harold. “The development of Arandic subsection names: issues of contact and chronology.” Australian Languages Workshop, Stradbroke Island, QLD. 7-10 March 2013
• Koch, Harold, Piers Kelly and Luise Hercus. “Moiety names in southeastern Australia: distribution and reconstructed history.” Australian Languages Workshop, 7 March 2014, Canberra.
• McConvell, Patrick, and Rachel Hendery. 2010. “Using Queries on the AustKin Database to Find Kinship Patterns and Systems.” Society for the Anthropological Sciences/Society for Cross-cultural research conference, 19th February 2010, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• McConvell, Patrick. “Kinship loanwords and their role in tracing cultural prehistory. Australian Linguistic Society”, October 2013, Melbourne.
• McConvell, Patrick. “‘Universal kinship’ and ‘sociocentric kin categories’: Forager and/or ancient human traits?” Australian Anthropological Society Conference, 6-8 November 2013, Canberra.
• McConvell, Patrick. “Enhancing the kinship anthropology of Scheffler with diachronic linguistics.” 21 May 2014, The Australian National University.
• McConvell, Patrick and Helen Gardner. “Morgan’s Australian descendants: Fison and Howitt abandon kinship and save their skins” 26 May 2014, The Australian National University. Wednesday, 12 March, 4pm

AustKin workshops and panels

• “How big is our family? Extensions and restrictions of kin and marriage.” Australian Anthropological Society conference panel, chaired by Patrick McConvell and Piers Kelly, 6-8 November 2013, Canberra.
• “Finding and Understanding Historical Sources in Australia and the Pacific: a workshop for Anthropologists, Historians and Linguists,” 28-30th January 2014, The Australian National University, Canberra.
• “Garbled voices from the archives: Restoring Aboriginal words and meanings in historical sources.” 15-16 April 2014, The Australian National University, Canberra.