The Kinship Terminology of the Dimasa

Alternate Generation Equivalence in the Tibeto-Burman Area

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3777960
AutoresPascal Bouchery (Territoires, Villes, Environnement & Société, autor correspondente), Monali Longmailai (Assam University)
Ano2019
Volume60
Fascículo3
Páginas226-254
Data de publicação2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropological linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-5483 • E-ISSN: 1944-6527
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/anl.2019.0005
OpenAlexW2972332166
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas18

Most languages of the Bodo-Garo cluster of the Tibeto-Burman family exhibit kinship terminologies that are built upon the principle of seniority and incorporate terminological equivalences between agnatic kin of alternate generations. Interestingly, the latter feature does not appear to be shared by any other language of the Sino-Tibetan family. To find a similar intricate pattern of self-reciprocity between consanguineal relatives of different generations, one has to turn to the Munda systems of Central India (whose languages belong to the Austroasiatic family); this raises several problems of interpretation. Dimasa is chosen here as a model, as it most clearly exhibits the general principles underlying kin classification in Bodo-Garo languages

Equivalence (formal languages) · Genealogy · Interpretation (philosophy) · Kinship · Language family · Linguistics · Sociology · Terminology · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · History · Philosophy · South Asian Studies and Conflicts