Kinship is understood dynamicallyandprocessuallybutkinshipterminologies are remarkably stable idea systems. They provide cultural continuity over time and are more resistant to modification than many types of cultural instantiations.Miskituspeakers in Nicaragua, however, have adopted new kin terms that appear to have fundamentally changed the idea system used to generate their kin terms historically. The shape of the changes that have occurred in Miskitu kin terminologies over time are the result of powerful economic, political and social forces introduced, in part, as a consequence of the geography of Mosquito Coast economies, migrations and political processes. We argue that the current use of kin terms is atypically hybrid and is not the...
International audienceThis volume's fifteen contributors argue that kinship analysis should remain f...
Kinship terminology is a human universal, a kind of cultural knowledge circulated through language. ...
The Agta view their environment in terms of a social landscape and base their exploitation of resour...
Kinship is understood dynamicallyandprocessuallybutkinshipterminologies are remarkably stable idea s...
Kinship is understood dynamically and processually but kinship terminologies are remarkably stable i...
A key change in the evolution of our species from a common ancestor with the chimpanzees was the shi...
The classification of kin into structured groups is a diverse phenomenon which is ubiquitous in huma...
Lehman (Chit Hlaing), The Cultural Ground of Kinship : A Paradigm Shift. - Kinship systems are conce...
Kinship is understood dynamically and processually but kinship terminologies are remarkably stable i...
The anthropologist David Schneider suggested two decades ago that we need to consider a hypothesis o...
International audienceKinship terminologies, a set of words of a language that reflects genealogical...
Abstract: Research in anthropology has shown that kin terminologies have a complex combinatorial str...
Kinship systems are the glue that holds social groups together. This volume presents a novel approac...
The received view regarding the centrality of kinship terminologies in kinship systems assumes that ...
Kinship terminologies express how societies encode familial relationships in language. While words s...
International audienceThis volume's fifteen contributors argue that kinship analysis should remain f...
Kinship terminology is a human universal, a kind of cultural knowledge circulated through language. ...
The Agta view their environment in terms of a social landscape and base their exploitation of resour...
Kinship is understood dynamicallyandprocessuallybutkinshipterminologies are remarkably stable idea s...
Kinship is understood dynamically and processually but kinship terminologies are remarkably stable i...
A key change in the evolution of our species from a common ancestor with the chimpanzees was the shi...
The classification of kin into structured groups is a diverse phenomenon which is ubiquitous in huma...
Lehman (Chit Hlaing), The Cultural Ground of Kinship : A Paradigm Shift. - Kinship systems are conce...
Kinship is understood dynamically and processually but kinship terminologies are remarkably stable i...
The anthropologist David Schneider suggested two decades ago that we need to consider a hypothesis o...
International audienceKinship terminologies, a set of words of a language that reflects genealogical...
Abstract: Research in anthropology has shown that kin terminologies have a complex combinatorial str...
Kinship systems are the glue that holds social groups together. This volume presents a novel approac...
The received view regarding the centrality of kinship terminologies in kinship systems assumes that ...
Kinship terminologies express how societies encode familial relationships in language. While words s...
International audienceThis volume's fifteen contributors argue that kinship analysis should remain f...
Kinship terminology is a human universal, a kind of cultural knowledge circulated through language. ...
The Agta view their environment in terms of a social landscape and base their exploitation of resour...