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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Evaluating the Tidda Talk Program: A Culturally Relevant Approach to Assessing Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women. [PDF]
Health Promot J AustrABSTRACT Issue Addressed While culturally appropriate health programming for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is increasing, evaluations of such initiatives remain limited by pragmatic and epistemological challenges. This study sought to address these limitations when piloting and examining the feasibility and acceptability of Tidda ...
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The family tree – a challenge for multicultural learning: some aspects of Swedish, Serbian and Bulgarian kinship terminology [PDF]
Revista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice, 2021 To discover the essential differences in cultural and linguistic patterns of a certain society, we need to look no further than to the most common relations of all – those between family members.
Sabira Ståhlberg, Dorijan Hajdu
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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 terminology of the Bau-Jagoi Bidayuh in Sarawak, Malaysia
Studies in English Language and Education, 2021 This paper explores the kinship terms of the Bidayuh of Sarawak, focusing on the Bau-Jagoi subgroup variation as well as their cultural concept of kinship.
Yvonne Michelle Campbell
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What Are Kinship Terminologies, and Why Do We Care? A Computational Approach to Analyzing Symbolic Domains [PDF]
, 2013 Kinship is a fundamental feature and basis of human societies. We describe a set of computational tools and services, the Kinship Algebra Modeler, and the logic that underlies these. These were developed to improve how we understand both the fundamental
Fischer, Michael D. +2 more
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Cognition, Algebra, and Culture in the Tongan Kinship Terminology [PDF]
, 2007 We present an algebraic account of the Tongan kinship terminology (TKT) that provides an insightful journey into the fabric of Tongan culture. We begin with the ethnographic account of a social event.
Bennardo, Giovanni, Read, Dwight
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Pubawidya: Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengembangan Arkeologi, 2019 The research underlying this paper aims to reconstruct Old Sundanese kinship terminology and its consequences on the family law of the Old Sundanese community.
Dede - Mulyanto
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The Patrilineal System of Kinship of the Older Generation in Russian and Kyrgyz Languages
Развитие образования, 2021 Introduction. The article deals with the patrilineal system of the Kyrgyz and Russian languages. The results, studies of the terms of kinship of the patrilineal system of the Kyrgyz and Russian languages are presented.
Chynara Z. Musaeva
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