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KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY IN LEPCHA

open access: yesThe Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2010
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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Comparative phylogenetic methods and the study of pattern and process in kinship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Anthropology began by comparing aspects of kinship across cultures, while linguists interested in semantic domains such as kinship necessarily compare across languages. In this chapter I show how phylogenetic comparative methods from evolutionary biology
Jordan, Fiona M
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Human kinship, from conceptual structure to grammar

open access: yes, 2010
: Research in anthropology has shown that kin terminologies have a complex combinatorial structure and vary systematically across cultures. This article argues that universals and variation in kin terminology result from the interaction of (1) an innate ...
Doug Jones
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Kinship groups and the devolution of family businesses

open access: yes, 2006
This paper presents the results of two long-term ethnographic studies on family businesses in modern day France (vine-growing farms in the Cognac region, and craft industry small firms).
Bessière, Céline, Gollac, Sibylle
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Extensive pedigrees reveal the social organization of a Neolithic community. [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 2023
Rivollat M   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Heady's comment on D. Read "Generative Crow-Omaha terminologies" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Read’s work on the generative logic of kinship terminologies constitutes one of the most distinctive and stimulating series of publications in the contemporary anthropology of kinship.
Heady, P., Heady, Patrickj
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