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Kinship terms are not kinship
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2010
Abstract
The target paper claims to contribute to the conceptualisation of kinship but is, in fact, only concerned with descriptive kinship terminologies. It uses Optimal Theory to analyse this vocabulary but it is not clear if this is to be understood as a psychological phenomenon. Jones does not make clear how this special vocabulary might relate to kinship in general.
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Kinship terms are not kinship
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