A Study of East African Kinship and Marriage Using a Phylogenetically Based Comparative Method
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2462913 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M B Mulder (0000-0003-1117-5984, University of California, Davis), Margaret George‐cramer (University of California, Santa Barbara), Jason Eshleman (University of California, Davis), Alessia Ortolani (University of California, Davis) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1059-1082 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.2001.103.4.1059 |
| OpenAlex | W2089512152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 102 |
This article has two related aims: to evaluate some of the principal (and often untested) hypotheses for sociocultural variation in family organization among East African societies and to offer insights into both the strengths and weaknesses of the phylogenetic method for comparative anthropological studies at regional levels. We start with the expectation that the relatively fine scale variation in traits observed at the regional level is a result of adaptations to local and institutional features. As such, historical continuities will disappear as descendant populations adapt to their new environments, thereby generating a new level of independence between daughter populations. In presenting both conventional and phylogenetically informed tests of a range of hypotheses for family variation among East African societies, this article provides an empirically based assessment of the validity of this view. [kinship, marriage, phylogenetic method, comparative method, East Africa
Biology · China · Comparative method · Descendant · East Asia · Evolutionary biology · Genealogy · Geography · Independence · Independence (probability theory · Kinship · Phylogenetic tree · Range (aeronautics · Scale (ratio · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Genetics · History · Land Rights and Reforms · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
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Kinship and descent
Branching, blending, and the evolution of cultural similarities and differences among human populations
Using phylogenetically based comparative methods in anthropology
Evolution of family systems and resultant socio-economic structures
Cultural macroevolution and the transmission of traits
Synthesis in the human evolutionary behavioural sciences
Sex differences in 2D
Comparative Methods for Studying Cultural Trait Evolution
Evolutionary Ecology of Human Pair-Bonds
Galton's Problem as Multiple Network Autocorrelation Effects
Insights From Evolutionary Anthropology on the (Pre)history of the Nuclear Family
Reconstructing the History of Marriage Strategies in Indo-European-Speaking Societies
Reconstructing the History of Marriage Strategies in Indo-European—Speaking Societies
No universals in the cultural evolution of kinship terminology
Female Mobility and Postmarital Kin Access in a Patrilocal Society
Kinship, sex, and fitness in a Caribbean community
The Comparative Method
Anthropological Genetics in the Genomic Era
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Cattle Raiding, Cultural Survival, and Adaptability of East African Pastoralists
Kinship and Evolved Psychological Dispositions
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Adaptation and Human Behavior
Human nature
The phylogenetic approach to comparing human populations
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British Social Anthropology
The Meaning of marriage payments
The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology
A Guide to the World’s Languages
Imposing Wilderness
Phylogenies and the Comparative Method
Cultural variation in Africa
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A Theory of the Origin of the State
On the Origin of Languages
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Measures of Polygyny in Humans
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The Swahili
Human By Nature
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Analyzing adaptive strategies
Comparative methods for studying primate adaptation and allometry
Using phylogenetically based comparative methods in anthropology
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An African Classical Age
The Origin of Language
Statistical Inference in Comparative Research
Adjusting for multiple testing when reporting research results
A Pastoral Democracy
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Saving the Theory
The Comparative Method in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
Ecology, Migration, and Expansion in East Africa
The Social Institutions of the Kipsigis
The Murle. Red Chiefs and Black Commoners
Southern Nilotic History
Phylogenyvsreticulation in prehistory
History versus Science
Family Structure, Bridewealth, and Environment in Eastern Africa
Witchcraft and Co-Wife Proximity in Southwestern Kenya
The Economics of Brideprice among the Sebei and in East Africa
African Systems of Kinship and Marriage
Standard Cross-Cultural Sample
Salish Language and Culture
Baggara Arabs
The Family Estate in Africa
Dominant Male Ideology and Female Options
Some Aspects of Marital Stability in a Rural Luo Community
Some Determinants of Marriage Stability in Busoga
The Detachability of Women
Galton's Problem as network autocorrelation
A Study of East African Kinship and Marriage Using a Phylogenetically Based Comparative Method
Putting Anthropology Back Together Again
Dowry as Female Competition
Distinguished Lecture
Domesticating the Functional Dragon
Patriliny Among the Gusii and the Luo of Kenya
The Conditions Favoring Matrilocal Versus Patrilocal Residence
Social Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Comparison
Bbitish Social Anthropology
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| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2021 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |