The Spatiotemporal Signature of Indigenous Kinship Networks

Abstract

The relationship between social anthropology and geography has been mediated by anthropology's specialised subfield of kinship analysis since the discipline's foundation in the 1870s. As this specialisation evolved with the incorporation of more formal modelling and analysis techniques from the 1960s, and especially with the incorporation of computing from the 1990s, both kinship analysis and geographic information systems have become more precise, with corresponding datasets growing to very large sizes. During the same period in Australia, social anthropology has been adopted by Commonwealth, state, and territory governments as a forensic discipline in the negotiation and litigation of Indi..