Genetic relatedness (kinship) among Anopheles gambiae Giles female mosquitoes was assessed using microsatellite loci in five locations across Africa and in nine samples taken between 1994 and 1999 in western Kenya. We assessed variation among samples in kinship as well as the effect of distance on kinship. Relatedness within populations was low, and differences among samples taken at various ti...

Confusions between substantive and relational concepts of kinship as a social network have led to a number of problems that are clarified by a temporally ordered relational theory of network structure. The ordered-network approach gives rise to a novel means of graphing the social field of kinship relations, while allowing kinship to be locally defined in culturally relative terms. Its utility ...

KINSHIP TERMS AND CONCEPTS PRINCIPAL SOURCES: DT = Donald Tuzin (1976) A Glossary of Kinship Terms and Concepts. Unpublished ms. ES = Ernest L. Schusky (1965) Manual for Kinship Analysis. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. GK = Julius Gould & William L. Kolb, eds., (1964) A Dictionary of the Social Sciences. New York: The Free Press. GPM = George Peter Murdock (1949) Social Structure New Yor...

Kinship is central to social organization in many societies; how people think about kinship should be relevant to social cognition generally. One window onto the mental representation of kinship is afforded by variation and universals in terms for kin. Kin terminologies are commonly organized around binary distinctive features, and terms for some types of kin are consistently linguistically mar...