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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
Claire Bowern +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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, 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 W 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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Introduction to the Mongolian Kinship Terminology in Inner Mongolia On the Example of Qarčin-Tümed Dialect [PDF]
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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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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Kinship terms in the district of Vranje [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2004 Kinship terminology includes a variety of terms used to identify and address kinsmen. This paper deals with nominal kinship categories, used for blood or fictive kinsmen in the district of Vranje during the second half of the 20th century.
Đorđević Jadranka Đ.
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Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2023 This work focuses on kinship terms in Lio, an understudied Austronesian language spoken in Flores, Indonesia. We describe the Lio kinship terms and compare them to available data on other nearby Austronesian languages. Preliminary observations show examples of alternate generation terms which have not been discussed in previous literature.
Arwen Fluit +2 more
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