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Conceptual implications of kinship terminological systems: Special problems and multiple analytic approaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2010

David B. Kronenfeld
David B. Kronenfeld
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521. [email protected]/david-judy/david.html
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Abstract

I raise issues concerning Jones' Seneca analysis, its relationship to analyses of Dravidian-, Crow-, and Omaha-type systems. These affect the convincingness of his kinship study, and thus the wider conclusions that he wants to draw regarding human cognition and language.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 5 , October 2010 , pp. 390
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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