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Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 For a single species, human kinship organization is both remarkably diverse and strikingly organized. Kinship terminology is the structured vocabulary used to classify, refer to, and address relatives and family. Diversity in kinship terminology has been
Robert Ross +2 more
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No universals in the cultural evolution of kinship terminology [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 Kinship terminologies are the semantic systems of language that express kinship relations between individuals: in English, ‘aunt’ denotes a parent's sister. Theoretical models of kinship terminology diversity reduce over 10 billion possible organisations
Sam Passmore, Fiona M. Jordan
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A Phylogenetic Comparative Study of Bantu Kinship Terminology Finds Limited Support for Its Co-Evolution with Social Organisation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The classification of kin into structured groups is a diverse phenomenon which is ubiquitous in human culture. For populations which are organized into large agropastoral groupings of sedentary residence but not governed within the context of a ...
Myrtille Guillon, Ruth Mace
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Lexical diversity in kinship across languages and dialects [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Languages are known to describe the world in diverse ways. Across lexicons, diversity is pervasive, appearing through phenomena such as lexical gaps and untranslatability.
Hadi Khalilia +5 more
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The Kinship Terminology of the Adi of Arunachal Pradesh (Padam and Minyong)
European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 2021 This paper describes the kinship system of the Adi of Arunachal Pradesh (Padam and Minyong subgroups), focusing on its kin terminology. This system corresponds to the Omaha model defined by Lévi-Strauss, marked by generational skewing and only ...
Pascal Bouchery
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, 2015 Kinship terminologies consist of the terms used to reference culturally recognized kinship relations between persons. These terms have been assumed to identify categories of genealogical relations (despite ethnographic evidence to the contrary), and kinship terminologies are classified using differences in genealogical referents of kin terms.
Dwight Read
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KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY IN PARKATEJÊ
Espaço Ameríndio, 2015 This paper presents a kinship terms description of the Parkatêjê people. Nowadays there are two villages at Reserva Indígena Mãe Maria (RIMM), one at Km 30 of BR-222 and the other at Km 35, close to Marabá, on the same road.
Tereza Tayná Coutinho Lopes +1 more
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Távol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2021 Kinship terminology is a reflection of the kinship system in the language. Kinship is produced through marriage and family relationships. Terminology that refers to such kinship has gradually been refined over time.
WUYINGGA (UYANGA)
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Die leksikografiese bewerking van verwantskapsterme in Sepedi
Lexikos, 2021 The lexicographical treatment of kinship terminology in Sepedi.Kinship terminology in Sepedi is extensive and forms a complex system. In contrast to languages such as Afrikaans, English and German the lexicographer faces greater challenges in respect of ...
D.J. Prinsloo
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Kinship Terminology as a (Still) Significant Anthropological Analytical Category
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2023 This paper explains the concept of kinship terminology as an analytical category in anthropology and highlights its importance. Special attention is given to the differences in approach and methodology employed in anthropology compared to comparative ...
Zorica Ivanović
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