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Kin Against Kin: Internal Co-selection and the Coherence of Kinship Typologies
2021
Biological Theory
AbstractAcross the world people in different societies structure their family relationships in many different ways. These relationships become encoded in their languages as kinship terminology, a word set that maps variably onto a vast genealogical grid of kinship categories, each of which could in principle vary independently. But the observed diversity of kinship terminology is considerably smaller than the enormous theoretical design space. For the past century anthropologists have captured
doi:10.1007/s13752-021-00379-6
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