Unthinkable categories and the fundamental laws of kinship

American Ethnologist

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 652-667

  Hage, Per ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cognition; Graph theory; Kinship theory; Linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039860799     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1997.24.3.652     Document Type: Article

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