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The Recognition of Kinship Terminologies As Formal Systems [PDF]
Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences, 2013 Author(s): Leaf, Murray | Abstract: We now know what kinship terminologies are and what their function is in kinship systems, even though this knowledge is not yet widespread. Every social system consists of a set of organizations built up interactively by the use of specific idea systems: governmental systems are systems of organizations built up by ...
Leaf, Murray, Leaf, Murray,
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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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Kinship Terminologies, Hypothetical or Extant, Are Optimal Solutions [PDF]
, 2014 The claim that extant terminologies are optimal solutions in a space of all possible terminologies depends on invalidly assuming any partition of a set of genealogical relations is a possible kinship terminology.
Read, Dwight +3 more
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