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Types of Kinship Terminological Systems and How to Analyze Them
New Insights from the Application of Sidney H. Gouldâs Analytic System
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This essay presents Gouldâs distinctive system for analyzing kin terminologies showing the systemâs power, importance, and usefulnessâand showing its relationship to other approaches and the payoffs each aims at. In revealing significant new empirical regularities and simplifications, Gouldâs 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.
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).
âPreface
âAcknowledgements
âList of Figures and Tables
âAbstract
âKeywords
âIntroduction
âPart 1 General: Definitions, Basics, and Givens
âPart 2 Notational Schemes
âPart 3 Equalities, Equivalences and Equations
âPart 4 Gouldâs Kingraphs
âPart 5 Analysis
âPart 6 System Types
âPart 7 The Fanti Case
âPart 8 Overview
âConclusion
âReferences Cited
âIndex
âAcknowledgements
âList of Figures and Tables
âAbstract
âKeywords
âIntroduction
âPart 1 General: Definitions, Basics, and Givens
âPart 2 Notational Schemes
âPart 3 Equalities, Equivalences and Equations
âPart 4 Gouldâs Kingraphs
âPart 5 Analysis
âPart 6 System Types
âPart 7 The Fanti Case
âPart 8 Overview
âConclusion
âReferences Cited
âIndex
Anthropologists (advanced students and professionals) interested in kinship terminologies, and in formal analytic systems. Anthropologists and linguists interested in semantic systems and in distributed collective knowledge systems.