Abstract
Anthropology began by comparing aspects of kinship across cultures, while linguists interested in semantic domains such as kinship necessarily compare across languages. In this chapter I show how phylogenetic comparative methods from evolutionary biology can be used to study evolutionary processes relating to kinship and kinship terminologies across language and culture.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Kinship systems: change and reconstruction |
Editors | Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen, Rachel Hendery |
Place of Publication | Salt Lake City, UT |
Publisher | University of Utah Press |
Pages | 43-58 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-60781-245-6 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-60781-244-9 |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2013 |
Keywords
- kinship
- cultural evolution
- cultural phylogenetics