
Types of Kinship Terminological Systems and How to Analyze Them
New Insights from the Application of Sidney H. Gould's Analytic System
David B. Kronenfeld(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 24. March 2022
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Paperback/Softback
202 pages
978-90-04-46802-3 (ISBN)
Description
This essay presents Gould's distinctive system for analyzing kin terminologies showing the system's power, importance, and usefulness-and showing its relationship to other approaches and the payoffs each aims at. In revealing significant new empirical regularities and simplifications, Gould's analytic system implies important constraints on future analytic and interpretative approaches to kin terminologies. Some of these new insights involve the demonstration of the effect of distributed collective cognitive systems over and above the effects of repeated iterations of individual cognitive constraints or pressures. It is the peculiar nature of the kinterm domain that allows these findings to be so directly shown, but the implication is that these findings apply more generally to the collective cognitive systems that make up language and culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 231 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-46802-3 (9789004468023)
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David B. Kronenfeld, Ph.D. (1970), Standford University, is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California at Riverside, and former member and Chair of Campus Committee on Linguistics. He has published mainly on kinship, and culture and cognition. His latest monograph is Culture as a System: How We Know the Meaning and Significance of What We Do and Say (Routledge, 2017).
Content
?Preface
?Acknowledgements
?List of Figures and Tables
?Abstract
?Keywords
?Introduction
?Part 1 General: Definitions, Basics, and Givens
?Part 2 Notational Schemes
?Part 3 Equalities, Equivalences and Equations
?Part 4 Gould's Kingraphs
?Part 5 Analysis
?Part 6 System Types
?Part 7 The Fanti Case
?Part 8 Overview
?Conclusion
?References Cited
?Index
?Acknowledgements
?List of Figures and Tables
?Abstract
?Keywords
?Introduction
?Part 1 General: Definitions, Basics, and Givens
?Part 2 Notational Schemes
?Part 3 Equalities, Equivalences and Equations
?Part 4 Gould's Kingraphs
?Part 5 Analysis
?Part 6 System Types
?Part 7 The Fanti Case
?Part 8 Overview
?Conclusion
?References Cited
?Index