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Kinship in International Relations: Introduction and framework [PDF]
This chapter identifies and discusses some of the ways in which kinship may be of use to IR scholars. The chapter offers examples of how kinship relations have manifested themselves historically in international relations, seeking to demonstrate how ...
Lie, Jon Harald Sande +2 more
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The target paper claims to contribute to the conceptualisation of kinship but is, in fact, only concerned with descriptive kinship terminologies. It uses Optimal Theory to analyse this vocabulary but it is not clear if this is to be understood as a ...
Maurice Bloch
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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]
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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Exploratory study of risks to stability in foster and kinship care in NSW [PDF]
This report describes an exploratory study on various aspects and risks to stability in foster and kinship placements.The report finds that compared to foster care, risks to placement stability are more evident for kinship care.
Marilyn McHugh
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ALMEIDA’sCOMMENT ON D. READ “GENERATIVE CROW-OMAHA TERMINOLOGIES” [PDF]
Read´s research program for describing the “generative logic” of distinct kinship terminologies in a homogeneous framework has proved its fruitfulness in different ethnographic domains, ranging from North American kinship to Dravidian terminologies, and ...
Barbosa de Almeida, Mauro
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Lepcha being a language of the Tibeto Burman language family exhibit structural traits of the of the kinship terminological system realised in the Indian subcontinent. Kinship terminology has been analysed by different scholars from different points of view like, generation, sex, affinity, collaterality, relative age, polarity, affinity, etc.
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Kinship Systems Change and Reconstruction
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- 1) Introduction -- 2) Kinship Terms -- 3) Comparative Phylogenetic Methods and the Study of Pattern and Process in Kinship -- 4) Reconstructing the Proto-Polynesian Terminology -- 5) On Husband-Borrowing -- 6 ...
Henderey, Rachel. +2 more
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CRENO: An ontology to model concepts relating to culture, race, ethnicity, and nationality for health data. [PDF]
Nguyen E +5 more
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The algebraic logic of kinship terminology structures
Jones' proposed application of Optimality Theory assumes the primary kinship data are genealogical definitions of kin terms. This, however, ignores the fact that these definitions can be predicted from the computational, algebralike structural logic of ...
Dwight W. Read
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