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Dynamics of kinship and the uncertainties of life: Spirit cults and healing management in northern Thailand [PDF]
, 2006 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This thesis is about kinship, health and healing in a Northern Thai village.
Vaseenon, Tidawan
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Newar marriage and kinship in Kathmandu, Nepal [PDF]
, 2000 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This thesis presents a descriptive and analytical study of Newar marriage and kinship in Kathmandu.
Sakya, Anil M
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Focality and Extension in Kinship [PDF]
, 2018 When we think of kinship, we usually think of ties between people based upon blood or marriage. But we also have other ways—nowadays called ‘performative’—of establishing kinship, or hinting at kinship: many Christians have, in addition to parents ...
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Kinship terms are not kinship [PDF]
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2010 AbstractThe target paper claims to contribute to the conceptualisation of kinship but is, in fact, only concerned with descriptive kinship terminologies. It uses Optimal Theory to analyse this vocabulary but it is not clear if this is to be understood as a psychological phenomenon.
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Kinship in International Relations: Introduction and framework [PDF]
, 2021 This chapter identifies and discusses some of the ways in which kinship may be of use to IR scholars. The chapter offers examples of how kinship relations have manifested themselves historically in international relations, seeking to demonstrate how ...
Lie, Jon Harald Sande +2 more
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What Are Kinship Terminologies, and Why Do We Care? A Computational Approach to Analyzing Symbolic Domains [PDF]
, 2013 Kinship is a fundamental feature and basis of human societies. We describe a set of computational tools and services, the Kinship Algebra Modeler, and the logic that underlies these. These were developed to improve how we understand both the fundamental
Fischer, Michael D. +2 more
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The Cultural Grounding of Kinship: A Paradigm Shift [PDF]
, 2014 English: Kinship systems are conceptually grounded in culturally formulated idea-systems we refer to as kinship terminologies and through which the boundaries, form and structure of human social systems are culturally constituted.
Fischer, Michael D. +8 more
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L'Atelier du CRH, 2011 We live in an age where new methods of procreation have led us to rethink what we define as biological kinship. Evolving from and reacting to these new problems, kinship studies also implies a redefinition of the very concept of kinship, above all, the ...
Chloé Maillet
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Teaching Culture through Language
Távol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2021 One socio-cultural aspect of the Korean language that foreign learners may encounter early is the extensive use of kinship terms in communicative situations.
Krisztina Nguyen
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No universals in the cultural evolution of kinship terminology
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 Kinship terminologies are the semantic systems of language that express kinship relations between individuals: in English, ‘aunt’ denotes a parent's sister. Theoretical models of kinship terminology diversity reduce over 10 billion possible organisations
Sam Passmore, Fiona M. Jordan
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