The reticular approach to kinship Douglas R. White and Michael Houseman For l’Homme, Special issue on kinship Regardless of how marriage is locally defined, most people in most places marry (and/or have children with) people who are neither too close (immediate family members) nor overly distant (total strangers). As a result, many members of a given community are linked to each other by multip...

http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/journal/11/1/148.werner « 13 » These assumptions of separation and connection provide an illustrative example of the relative differences between diametric and concentric spaces as spatial frames for cognition. diametric and concentric structures are necessary spatialrelational conditions for framing the two different constructions of Gilligan’s moral reas...