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Charles Wagley on changes in Tupí-Guaraní kinship classifications
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências HumanasCharles Wagley contributed significantly to the ethnographic study of culture and society in Brazil. In addition to his well-known work on both rural and urban Brazilian populations, Wagley was a pioneering ethnographer of indigenous societies in Brazil,
William Balée
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Talk Is Not Cheap: Kinship Terminologies and the Origins of Language [PDF]
, 2013 Kinship terminology is a human universal, a kind of cultural knowledge circulated through language. In this paper I explore the possibility that the need for social rules prompted the development of fully syntactic language via kinship terminologies.
Milicic, Bojka, Milicic, Bojka,
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Kinship terminologies reflect culture-specific communicative need: Evidence from Hindi and English [PDF]
, 2023 Systems of semantic categories vary across languages, and it has been proposed that this variation is constrained by a need for efficiency in communication. An important element of efficiency is communicative need, or how often a particular object needs
Regier, Terry, Anand, Gunjan
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Sindh Journal of LinguisticsLanguage and culture are entangled (Translations, 2018). A specific language typically points to a particular cluster of individuals. Language and culture share a symbiotic relationship.
Snober Gull, Muhammad Maaroof Iqbal
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Kinship Algebra Expert System (KAES): A Software Implementation of a Cultural Theory [PDF]
, 2006 The computer program Kinship Algebra Expert System (KAES) provides a graphically based framework for constructing, if possible, a generative algebraic model for the structure of a kinship terminology (the terms used to refer to one’s kin).
Read, Dwight W
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WHY CAN HUNTER-GATHERER GROUPS BE ORGANIZED SIMLARLY FOR RESOURCE PROCUREMENT, BUT THEIR KINSHIP TERMINOLOGIES ARE STRIKINGLY DISSIMILAR: A CHALLENGE FOR FUTURE CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH [PDF]
, 2019 Cross-cultural research involves explanatory arguments framed at the meta-level of a cohort of societies, each with its own historical development as an internally structured and organized system.
Read, Dwight W, Read, Dwight W,
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A PROBLEM IN KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY [PDF]
American Anthropologist, 1939 Peer Reviewed ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/99672/1/aa.1939.41.4.02a00040 ...
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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.
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A Survey of Chinese Politeness from Imperial to Modern Times: Kinship Terminologies and Honorifics
, 2021 This thesis is founded on the understanding that culture and language are mutually influenced by one another. Having a grasp on a culture’s linguistic politeness strategies allows seamless navigation within a culture; it is a mark of fluency in a ...
Ye, Anna
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