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Oceanian and Australian Peoples

This subcategory gathers indigenous social groups of Australia and Oceania, including Aboriginal Australians, the Maori of New Zealand, and Samoan society, each documented by a distinct language, kinship system, and traditional territory predating and continuing alongside the modern states that now govern the region. It does not cover the states of Australia or the Pacific, which Political and Geography carry, nor Pacific mythology and religious practice, which Divinity carries.

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Established Era
1949 1
Primary Discipline
Anthropology 1
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1. Wikipedia: Human Relations Area Files
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  • Human Relations Area Files, lead section, founding sentence
    A financially autonomous research agency based at Yale University since 1949, its mission is to promote understanding of cultural diversity and commonality in the past and present.
  • Human Relations Area Files, lead section, anthropologist sentence
    Documents in both eHRAF databases are subject-indexed at the paragraph level by HRAF anthropologists.
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