The cultural grounding of kinship: A paradigm shift

Homme (France)

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 63-89

  Read, Dwight ^a   Fischer, Michael D ^b   Lehman, F K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Anthropology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Kinship; Kinship mathematics; Kinship space; Kinship terminology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENEALOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGIC; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NOMENCLATURE; SIBLING; SPOUSE;

EID: 84916208213     PISSN: 04394216     EISSN: 19538103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4000/lhomme.23550     Document Type: Review

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