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No universals in the cultural evolution of kinship terminology [PDF]
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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Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 For a single species, human kinship organization is both remarkably diverse and strikingly organized. Kinship terminology is the structured vocabulary used to classify, refer to, and address relatives and family. Diversity in kinship terminology has been analyzed by anthropologists for over 150 years, although recurrent patterning across cultures ...
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Intimate partner violence against women in Southern Punjab, Pakistan: A phenomenological study [PDF]
BMC Women's Health, 2022 Background Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) refers to behavior by an intimate partner that can cause physical, sexual, or psychological harm; is a common global public health issue requiring immediate attention.
Tehmina Sattar +2 more
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, 2015 Kinship terminologies consist of the terms used to reference culturally recognized kinship relations between persons. These terms have been assumed to identify categories of genealogical relations (despite ethnographic evidence to the contrary), and kinship terminologies are classified using differences in genealogical referents of kin terms.
Dwight Read
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The family tree – a challenge for multicultural learning: some aspects of Swedish, Serbian and Bulgarian kinship terminology [PDF]
Revista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice, 2021 To discover the essential differences in cultural and linguistic patterns of a certain society, we need to look no further than to the most common relations of all – those between family members.
Sabira Ståhlberg, Dorijan Hajdu
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The conceptual building blocks of kinship terminologies
LinguaKinship terminology was once a major focus of structural linguistics, yet the arcane symbols and notations of structural linguistics cannot plausibly represent the cognitive realities of speakers, and therefore hold little appeal for today's cognitive linguists. This study seeks to put kinship semantics back on the cognitive linguistics agenda.
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The Kinship Terminology of the Adi of Arunachal Pradesh (Padam and Minyong)
European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 2021 This paper describes the kinship system of the Adi of Arunachal Pradesh (Padam and Minyong subgroups), focusing on its kin terminology. This system corresponds to the Omaha model defined by Lévi-Strauss, marked by generational skewing and only ...
Pascal Bouchery
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Kinship Terminology as a (Still) Significant Anthropological Analytical Category
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2023 This paper explains the concept of kinship terminology as an analytical category in anthropology and highlights its importance. Special attention is given to the differences in approach and methodology employed in anthropology compared to comparative ...
Zorica Ivanović
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The Lexicographic Treatment of Xitsonga Kinship Terminologies in Selected Bilingual Dictionaries
African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary StudiesKinship terminologies, which vary across cultures and languages, present challenges for lexicographers in creating bilingual dictionaries. Effective bilingual dictionaries must accurately and comprehensively reflect kinship terms and their equivalents ...
Respect Mlambo, Muzi Matfunjwa
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A PROBLEM IN KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY [PDF]
American Anthropologist, 1940 A PROBLEM IN KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY By E. W. GIFFORD· LESLIE A. WHITE, in his on A Problem D R minology,! settles the problem to paper own satisfaction in Kinship Ter his with the follow ing formulation concerning certain types of kinship systems (p. 569): The type which violates the generation principle is an outgrou:th of the type which does not, and ...
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