Kinship

1982 How some Murngin men marry ten wives: the marital implications of matrilateral cross cousin structures. Man 17(4): 620-42.

1985 Definitions of kin. Journal of Anthropological Research, 41: 62 90.

1987 Gidjingali and Yolngu polygyny: a reply to Martin and Reddy. Oceania 58(1): 63-64.

1988 Twenty-five years of Aboriginal kinship studies. In R.M. Berndt and R. Tonkinson (eds.) Social Anthropology and Australian Aboriginal Studies: a Contemporary Overview. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Pp. 77-124.

2000 A bundle of sticks: the debate over Yolngu clans.Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6: 419-436.

2002 Seven Aboriginal marriage systems and their correlates. Anthropological Forum 12(2):145-57.

2004 “In a world of hunter-gatherers...”: variation in Aboriginal marriage systems. In T. Widlok and W.G. Tadesse (eds.), Property and Equality: Volume I: Ritualization, Sharing, Egalitarianism. New York: Berghahn Books.

2010 Cape York Peninsula Kariera to north-east Arnhem Land Karadjeri kinship and marriage: unfolding systems and rupturing terminologies. In D. Jones and B. Milicic eds. Kinship, Language and Prehistory: Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies. Utah University Press. Pp.xxxx

In press The Legacy of Radcliffe-Brown's Typology of Australian Aboriginal Kinship Systems. Ethnology (Special issue).