Types of Kinship Terminological Systems and How to Analyze Them : New Insights from the Application of Sidney H. Gould's Analytic System (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Linguistics)

Kronenfeld, David B.

Brill（2022/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 186 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004468023
• DDC分類 306.8309667

Full Description

This essay presents Gould's distinctive system for analyzing kin terminologies showing the system's power, importance, and usefulness—and showing its relationship to other approaches and the payoffs each aims at. In revealing significant new empirical regularities and simplifications, Gould's analytic system implies important constraints on future analytic and interpretative approaches to kin terminologies. Some of these new insights involve the demonstration of the effect of distributed collective cognitive systems over and above the effects of repeated iterations of individual cognitive constraints or pressures. It is the peculiar nature of the kinterm domain that allows these findings to be so directly shown, but the implication is that these findings apply more generally to the collective cognitive systems that make up language and culture.

Contents

 Preface

 Acknowledgements

 List of Figures and Tables

 Abstract

 Keywords

 Introduction

 Part 1 General: Definitions, Basics, and Givens

 Part 2 Notational Schemes

 Part 3 Equalities, Equivalences and Equations

 Part 4 Gould's Kingraphs

 Part 5 Analysis

 Part 6 System Types

 Part 7 The Fanti Case

 Part 8 Overview

 Conclusion

 References Cited

 Index