This overview of the development of the multilevel network approach to kinship has at its core the definition of a multilevel network as one in which a node at one level may contain a network of relations at the next level (Harary and Batell 1981). The definition is potentially recursive so as to define a particular kind of system, a network with potentially many levels. André Weil (1949), for ...

Three experiments were carried out to investigate whether the the kinship concept had spatial representations along up-down (Experiment 1), left-right (Experiment 2), and front-back (Experiment 3) orientation. Participants identified the letter P or Q after judging whether kinship words were elder or junior terms. The results showed that participants responded faster to letters placed at the to...

This research is a sociolinguistics study which explore the relationship between language and society. The aims of to identify kind address terms used in English Enrekang Durinese based on daily conversation. method this descriptive qualitative. data obtained by Recording interviewing done Massenrempulu people Duri, Alla’ Sub-district, District. from Movie Series contain utterance terms.The res...

In this article, I explore the kinship imaginaries that emerged between gay male tourists from North America and Europe and Cuban male sex workers and their families within the context of Havana’s queer-erotic economies. Whereas male sex workers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean tend to conceal their male clients from their families, Cuban sexual laborers in this study incorporated que...

The goal of this paper is to relate formal analysis of kinship terminologies to a better understanding of who, culturally, are defined as our kin. Part I of the paper begins with a brief discussion as to why neither of the two claims: (1) kinship terminologies primarily have to do with social categories and (2) kinship terminologies are based on classification of genealogically specified relati...

The concept of marking was discovered in phonology by Trubetzkoy and generalized to morphology and grammar by Jakobson. In a fundamental application to anthropology, Greenberg integrated a generalized concept of marking into a cognitivelinguistic theory of kinship universals. Greenberg’s theory is important for three reasons: (1) it leads to the discovery and explanation of cross-cultural unive...