Reconstructing the history of marriage and residence strategies in indo-European-speaking societies

Human Biology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-135

  Fortunato, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affinal terminology; Cultural phylogenetics; Indo european; Marriage; Monogamy; Neolocality; Polygyny; Residence; Uxorilocality; Virilocality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MARRIAGE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MARRIAGE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 79961132105     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.083.0108     Document Type: Article

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