MORGAN’S AUSTRALIAN DESCENDANTS: FISON AND HOWITT ABANDON KINSHIP AND SAVE THEIR SKINS
Having formed a partnership to continue Morgan’s methods in Australia, and collected a number of Australian kinship schedules, Fison and A.W.Howitt embarked on the book Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1881).
One might have expected this book to include detailed analysis of the different kinship terminologies in Australia, especially as the two groups in the title contrasted in kinship patterning. Strangely, very few kinship terms even appeared in the book.
Dr McConvell will explain the reasons for this puzzling decision, and brings to light what is available of the kinship material available to Fison and Howitt not published in the book, especially schedules of other groups from archival sources.