Types of Kinship Terminological Systems and How to Analyze Them

New Insights from the Application of Sidney H. Gould's Analytic System
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-46802-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Linguistics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kronenfeld, David B

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).