Types of Kinship Terminological Systems and How to Analyze Them: New Insights from the Application of Sidney H. Gould’s Analytic System: 3 (Brill Research Perspectives in Linguistics) - Softcover

David B. Kronenfeld

 
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Synopsis

The power of Gould’s analytic system reveals new insights into the Fanti kin terminology. It demonstrates the effectiveness of collective cognitive constraints vs. repeated individual constraints, and the role of distinctive features in dividing relative-product-based super-class structures into actual kinterms.

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About the Author

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).

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