Kinship Terms and Kinship Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22367737 |
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| Authors | Jeffrey Heath (0000-0002-1918-2137, University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 1-10 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118786093.iela0185 |
| OpenAlex | W3156975769 |
| ISBN | 9781118786093 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Kinship terminology has been studied in three distinct but overlapping ways. In one, kin terms are mapped onto genealogical grids consisting of kintypes, both consanguineal like cousin {MoBrCh, MoSiCh, FaBrCh, FaSiCh, ...} and affinal like brother‐in‐law (SiHu, BrWi). The goal is to identify the principles underlying the full set of mappings in a given system. Correlations with social practices and cultural models may follow. The second approach focuses on how native speakers talk about kinship, how kin terms function in discourse, and how kin‐term systems can be decomposed into multiple subsystems. The third approach tackles the evolution over time of kin‐term systems, using historical documents or reconstruction. This terminological evolution may then be correlated with changing social‐structural practices
Biology · Brother · Epistemology · Evolutionary biology · Fictive kinship · Genealogy · Kinship · Linguistics · Sociology · Terminology · Anthropology · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
| Highly cited | No |
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