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THE GENERATIVE LOGIC OF CROW-OMAHA TERMINOLOGIES: THE THONGA-RONGA KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY AS A CASE STUDY [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The goal of the paper is to show how the generative logic approach to kinship terminology structures sheds light on the basis for the skewing that characterizes the Crow-Omaha terminologies.
Read, Dwight W
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Talk Is Not Cheap: Kinship Terminologies and the Origins of Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Seri kinship terminology

open access: yesWork Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, 1993
Abstract 1 Introduction 2 Nonkinship terms 2.1 Terms derived from verbs 2.2 Unpossessed nouns 3 Kinship terminology 3.1 Grandkinsman terms 3.2 Parent and child terms 3.3 Sibling terms 3.4 Collateral parent and child terms 3.5 Affinal terms 4 Reference to deceased persons Appendix: Kinship Terms References 1 The Seri people live along the mainland coast
Mary B. Moser, Stephen Marlett
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Kinship terminologies reflect culture-specific communicative need: Evidence from Hindi and English [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Newar marriage and kinship in Kathmandu, Nepal [PDF]

open access: yes, 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, A.M., Sakya, Anil M
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Eskimo kinship terminologies

open access: yes, 1964
Seventeen complete and incomplete Eskimo kinship terminologies are examined and compared with a view to determining and assessing the nature and extent of the reported discrepancies. It is shown that the lack of a standardized orthography for the Eskimo
Stevenson, David
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Kinship Theory: A Paradigm Shift [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The received view regarding the centrality of kinship terminologies in kinship systems assumes that terminologies are genealogically constrained. This assumption ignores the generative logic of kinship terminologies, hence the need for a new paradigm ...
Read, Dwight W
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Understanding solastalgia from a decolonised, Indigenist lens: a scoping review. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Public Health, 2023
Upward K, Usher K, Saunders V, Maple M.
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KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY IN PARKATEJÊ

open access: yesEspaço Ameríndio, 2015
Este trabalho apresenta uma descrição da terminologia de parentesco do povo Parkatêjê. Atualmente, uma parte do referido povo vive em uma aldeia na Reserva Indígena Mãe Maria (RIMM), localizada no km 30 da BR-222, e outra parte na aldeia indígena Rõhôkatêjê, localizada na altura do km 35 da mesma rodovia, às proximidades do município de Marabá.
Lopes, Tereza Tayná Coutinho   +1 more
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Hidden in full sight: kinship, science and the law in the aftermath of the Srebrenica genocide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Terms such as “relationship testing,” “familial searching” and “kinship analysis” figure prominently in professional practices of disaster victim identification (DVI).
Toom, Victor, Haimes, Erica
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