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Indo-European kinship terminologies in Europe: trajectoriesof change [PDF]
Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 2015 This is a study of kin terms and kinship terminologies in Indo-European (IE) languages. There is, of course, no shortage of such studies already (e.g. Delbrück 1889, Hocart 1928, Galton 1957, Friedrich 1966, Szemerényi 1977, Kullanda 2002), which go back
Robert Parkin
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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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Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2023 This work focuses on kinship terms in Lio, an understudied Austronesian language spoken in Flores, Indonesia. We describe the Lio kinship terms and compare them to available data on other nearby Austronesian languages. Preliminary observations show examples of alternate generation terms which have not been discussed in previous literature.
Arwen Fluit +2 more
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Persistent Cultures: Miskitu Kinship Terminological Fluidity [PDF]
, 2015 Kinship is understood dynamically and processually but kinship terminologies are remarkably stable idea systems. They provide cultural continuity over time and are more resistant to modification than many types of cultural instantiations.
Fischer, Michael D. +2 more
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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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India and the Study of Kinship Terminologies [PDF]
, 2007 L’Inde et l’étude des terminologies de parenté. – L’étude des terminologies de parenté s’est développée au xviiie siècle à partir de l’ethnologie linguistique, laquelle souhaitait découvrir les relations historiques existant entre les nations en étudiant
Trautmann, Thomas R.
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Kinship terminology: polysemy or categorization?
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2010 AbstractThe target article offers an analysis of the categorization of kin types and empirical evidence that cross-cultural universals may be amenable to OT explanation. Since the analysis concerns the structuring of conceptual categories rather than the use of words, it differs from previous OT analyses in lexical semantics in what is considered to be
Hogeweg, L., Legendre, G., Smolensky, P.
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Kinship terms in Marwari: A sociolinguistic study [PDF]
Training, Language and CultureThis study investigates the sociolinguistic functions of kinship terms within the Marwari speech community of Rajasthan, addressing the gap in research concerning how language structures reflect and reinforce familial and social identity. The primary aim
Rashmika Goswami, Dhanapati Shougrakpam
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CROW-OMAHA KINSHIP: REVITALIZING A PROBLEM OR GENERATING A SOLUTION? [PDF]
, 2021 The article discusses the long-standing Crow-Omaha problem in kinship studies with a focus on the volume Crow-Omaha: New Light on a Classic Problem of Kinship Analysis (2012), edited by Thomas Trautmann and Peter Whiteley.
Dziebel, German, Dziebel, German,
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Model-based explanation in the social sciences : modelling kinship terminologies and romantic networks [PDF]
, 2013 I compare Read's model of kinship terminologies to a sociological model of a romantic and sexual network. This comparison leads to an account of how models function to construe explanations that complement Read's own account.Peer ...
Marchionni, Caterina +1 more
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