The evolution of kinship terminologies

@article{Allen1989TheEO,
  title={The evolution of kinship terminologies},
  author={Nicholas J. Allen},
  journal={Lingua},
  year={1989},
  volume={77},
  pages={173-185}
}
  • N. Allen
  • Published 1 February 1989
  • Sociology
  • Lingua
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The Kinship Terminology of the Dimasa: Alternate Generation Equivalence in the Tibeto-Burman Area
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The Cultural Grounding of Kinship: A Paradigm Shift
Kinship systems are conceptually grounded in culturally formulated idea-systems we refer to as kinship terminologies and through which the boundaries, form and structure of human social systems are…
Social evolution and language change
We propose substantive universals in the relationship between social evolution and language change. Social anthropologists have c t gorized societies into roughly four broad types by social…
ALTERNATIVE PASTS: RECONSTRUCTING PROTO-OCEANIC KINSHIP
Allen has outlined a world-historical theory of kinship in which the earliest kinship systems are assumed to have been tetradic. Such a system is defined by alternate generation, prescriptive, and…
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