Systems in Geography or Geography of Systems? Attempts to Represent Spatial Distributions of Australian Social Organisation

Dousset, Laurent

doi:10.22459/skc.04.2018.03

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“…Analysis of the different names assigned to skin groups in different languages indicates that the 8-skin or "subsection" system had a single point of origin, somewhere in the general vicinity of Katherine in the Northern Territory, between about 1,000 and 2,000 years ago (McConvell, 2018b). Dousset, 2018). The symbol "8" indicates 8-skin or "subsection" systems, and the symbol "4" indicates 4skin or "section" systems.…”

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�Him makeum walk straight�: using simulation to explore Australian Aboriginal skin groups

2021

MODSIM2021, 24th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation.

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In Dekker (2019), while arguing for the use of agent-based computer simulation as a tool for understanding the function of anthropological phenomena, we explored the system of 8 "skin groups" or "subsections" used across central northern Australia (Figure 1). We noted in passing the well-known fact that this system has the structure of the dihedral group D 4 . In this paper, we address the question: why D 4 ? We report further analyses and NetLogo-based simulations comparing this system against alternative structures derived from group theory, and show that this system based on D 4 was indeed better than the alternatives: genetically, in story transmission, and with regard to formal properties. Table 1 summarises our findings.

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confidence: 99%