Languages vary in their systems of kinship categories, but the scope of possible variation
appears to be constrained. Previous accounts of kin classification have often emphasized …

What separates modern humans from our primate cousins—are we a mere blink in the
march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight …

Research in anthropology has shown that kin terminologies have a complex combinatorial
structure and vary systematically across cultures. This article argues that universals and …

Kinship is a fundamental feature and basis of human societies. We describe a set of
computational tools and services, and the logic that underlies these, developed to improve …

Jones' proposed application of Optimality Theory assumes the primary kinship data are
genealogical definitions of kin terms. This, however, ignores the fact that these definitions …

The kin term product calculations used by culture-bearers to compute kin relationships from
kin terms without reference to genealogy are the basis for the structure of a kinship …

While many anthropologists these days dismiss the study of kinship terminologies as
something that belongs—or should belong—to the past, from an Australian perspective kin …

Książka bazuje na pogłębionych badaniach etnograficznych przeprowadzonych pomiędzy
2003 a 2010 rokiem w środowisku wielkomiejskim, małomiasteczkowym oraz wiejskim. W …

Carrying out this enterprise in toto requires rethinking widespread assumptions such as 'kin
categories are genealogically structured'and 'kinship space is built up recursively out of …

In Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read illustrate how
humans organize systems of social ideas through structures of kinship and outline what this …