What Shapiro and McKinnon are all about, and why kinship still needs anthropologists

Social Anthropology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 158-170

  Parkin, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Category; Evolutionary psychology; Focality; Kinship; Kinte terms

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749083469     PISSN: 09640282     EISSN: 14698676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2009.00067.x     Document Type: Article

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