Kinship and Indigenous Identity

The Alliance Project: Yolngu people of Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia (http://study.hs.sugiyama-u.ac.jp/alliance/)
This project to record the relationships of a community may have started with good intentions but raised questions for me. It has hints of European /Western scientific experimentation. The natives son’t seem to require this information as to who they are related to but outsiders seem to want it.

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