Australia Kinship System
The Australian Aboriginal kinship system has a large impact on how the culture behaves beginning with their creation stories and then onto how children are raised, children entering adulthood, and relationships that are taught. These examples of kinships can differ from culture to culture especially in the Australian Aboriginal culture which could bring a culture closer together or it can damage the culture. Kinships can change how a culture behaves through their beliefs.
Aboriginal culture is the oldest living culture (meaning it still exists today) in the world dating back to nearly 60,000 years ago. There are no African cultures still in existence today that are that old. “Kinship is a system of social relationships expressed in a biological idiom through terms such as mother, son, and so on.”(Australian Aborigine) The main purpose of their kinship system is to determine where each member stands within the tribe as well as outside the tribe. Kinship also “provided everyone with a ready-made guide to expected behavior, indicating, for example, the expectation of sexual familiarity, a joking relationship, restraint, or completes avoidance.” (Australian Aborigine) This helped form relationships and determines how they interact with each other.
The dreamtime is said to be the time which existed before & during creation of everything. It is commonly believed to be an aboriginal way of describing how they came to be, and how everything came to be created. Every culture has their own myths on how they were created. One of the myths Australian Aborigines had was that there was a "seed power" deposited in the earth. The myth was that “As with a seed, the potency of an earthly location is wedded to the memory of its origin. The Aborigines called this potency the ‘Dreaming’ of a place, and this Dreaming constitutes the sacred-ness of the earth.” (Joy Zone) “In Australian Aborigines, people enact Dreamtime myths that spiritually recreate the journeys of ancestor beings
Aboriginal culture is the oldest living culture (meaning it still exists today) in the world dating back to nearly 60,000 years ago. There are no African cultures still in existence today that are that old. “Kinship is a system of social relationships expressed in a biological idiom through terms such as mother, son, and so on.”(Australian Aborigine) The main purpose of their kinship system is to determine where each member stands within the tribe as well as outside the tribe. Kinship also “provided everyone with a ready-made guide to expected behavior, indicating, for example, the expectation of sexual familiarity, a joking relationship, restraint, or completes avoidance.” (Australian Aborigine) This helped form relationships and determines how they interact with each other.
The dreamtime is said to be the time which existed before & during creation of everything. It is commonly believed to be an aboriginal way of describing how they came to be, and how everything came to be created. Every culture has their own myths on how they were created. One of the myths Australian Aborigines had was that there was a "seed power" deposited in the earth. The myth was that “As with a seed, the potency of an earthly location is wedded to the memory of its origin. The Aborigines called this potency the ‘Dreaming’ of a place, and this Dreaming constitutes the sacred-ness of the earth.” (Joy Zone) “In Australian Aborigines, people enact Dreamtime myths that spiritually recreate the journeys of ancestor beings