A phylogenetic approach to the history of cultural practices

Early Human Kinship: From Sex to Social Reproduction

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 189-199

  Fortunato, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross cultural analysis of marriage and descent practices 'Galton's problem' in anthropology; Phylogenetic approaches to cross cultural comparison; Phylogenetic tree building methods; Reconstructing ancestral states; Reconstructions evidence from cultural practice and language; Spatial and temporal distribution of cultural practices shedding light on function and development; Standard elementary subgroups of IE languages Albanian, Iranian, Indic, Slavonic, Celtic, Germanic, Romance; Wealth transfers at marriage in Indo European societies

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EID: 84956531695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444302714.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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