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Types of Kinship Terminological Systems and How to Analyze Them : New Insights from the Application of Sidney H. Gould's Analytic System.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kronenfeld, David B.
Corporate Author: E.J. Brill (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2022.
Series:Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects:
Language and languages > Etymology.
EÌ?tymologie.
etymology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures and Tables
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • Introduction
  • Some Thoughts and Speculations Concerning the Importance and Payoffs of Kinship
  • The Study of Kinship
  • Description and Assemblage of Data
  • Next Came Comparison and Analysis
  • Morgan and Kinship Terminologies
  • Post Morgan
  • Gould
  • Part 1 General: Definitions, Basics, and Givens
  • Definitions
  • Part 2 Notational Schemes
  • 1 Traditional Notation
  • 2 P/C Notation
  • 3 FMSD Notation
  • 4 Romney's Notation (Romney and D'Andrade 1964, Romney 1965)
  • 5 Gould Notation Scheme (see Gould 2000: 27-39)
  • Part 3 Equalities, Equivalences and Equations
  • Part 4 Gould's Kingraphs
  • Example 4-1: English
  • Example 4-2: Nanjilnattu Vellalar (NV)
  • Part 5 Analysis
  • The Stages of Analysis Referred to in Part 1
  • The Stages of Analysis, with Gould System Examples Added in
  • Example 5-1: An English Example
  • Example 5-2: A Nanjilnattu Vellalar (NV) Example
  • Part 6 System Types
  • Part 7 The Fanti Case
  • Ethnographic Background
  • Basic Kinterm Information
  • Wider Issues
  • The Fanti Case
  • Analysis of Fanti Kinterm System
  • Part 8 Overview
  • First
  • Notational System
  • Second
  • Basis of Analysis, Equivalences
  • Third
  • Analytic Process
  • Reduction via Equivalences
  • Fourth
  • Kingraphs
  • Fifth
  • TYPES, defined
  • The Importance of Gould's System and Findings
  • A Reminder
  • The Usefulness of Kinship Terminologies for the Study of Collective Cognitive Systems
  • The Future
  • Conclusion
  • What I Particularly Admire about Gould's System
  • Major Implications of Gould's System
  • A Point about Typologies
  • Some Basic Questions Posed by Findings
  • Change
  • Overview and Take Home Lessons
  • References Cited
  • Index
  • C:.nb