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)

Kronenfeld, David B.

ISBN 10: 9004468021 / ISBN 13: 9789004468023

Published by Brill, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 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)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004468021
• ISBN 13: 9789004468023
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

David B. Kronenfeld, Ph.D. (1970), Standford University, is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California at Riverside, and former member and Chair of Campus Committee on Linguistics. He has published mainly on kinship, and culture and cognition. His latest monograph is Culture as a System: How We Know the Meaning and Significance of What We Do and Say (Routledge, 2017).