| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 186 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- Some Thoughts and Speculations Concerning the Importance and Payoffs of Kinship -- The Study of Kinship -- Description and Assemblage of Data -- Next Came Comparison and Analysis -- Morgan and Kinship Terminologies -- Post Morgan -- Gould -- Part 1 General: Definitions, Basics, and Givens -- Definitions -- Part 2 Notational Schemes -- 1 Traditional Notation -- 2 P/C Notation -- 3 FMSD Notation -- 4 Romney's Notation (Romney and D'Andrade 1964, Romney 1965) |
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5 Gould Notation Scheme (see Gould 2000: 27-39) -- Part 3 Equalities, Equivalences and Equations -- Part 4 Gould's Kingraphs -- Example 4-1: English -- Example 4-2: Nanjilnattu Vellalar (NV) -- Part 5 Analysis -- The Stages of Analysis Referred to in Part 1 -- The Stages of Analysis, with Gould System Examples Added in -- Example 5-1: An English Example -- Example 5-2: A Nanjilnattu Vellalar (NV) Example -- Part 6 System Types -- Part 7 The Fanti Case -- Ethnographic Background -- Basic Kinterm Information -- Wider Issues -- The Fanti Case -- Analysis of Fanti Kinterm System -- Part 8 Overview |
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First -- Notational System -- Second -- Basis of Analysis, Equivalences -- Third -- Analytic Process -- Reduction via Equivalences -- Fourth -- Kingraphs -- Fifth -- TYPES, defined -- The Importance of Gould's System and Findings -- A Reminder -- The Usefulness of Kinship Terminologies for the Study of Collective Cognitive Systems -- The Future -- Conclusion -- What I Particularly Admire about Gould's System -- Major Implications of Gould's System -- A Point about Typologies -- Some Basic Questions Posed by Findings -- Change -- Overview and Take Home Lessons -- References Cited -- Index -- C:.nb |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Etymology.
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etymology.
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Language and languages -- Etymology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
900446817X |
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9789004468177 |
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