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Introduction to the Science of Kinship

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 2020

Summary

In Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read show how humans use specific systems of social ideas to organize their kinship relations and illustrate what this implies for the science of human social organization. Leaf and Read explain that every human society has multiple social organizations, each of which is associated with a distinct vocabulary. This vocabulary is associated with interrelated definitions of social roles and relations. These roles and relations have four specific logical properties: reciprocity, transitivity, boundedness, and imaginary spatial dimensionality. These properties allow individuals to use them in communication to create ongoing, agreed-upon, organizations. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and mathematics.

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Edition
1/2020
Copyright Year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-3237-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-3238-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
324
Product Type
Monograph

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. List of Figures No access
    3. List of Tables No access
    4. Acknowledgments and Who Did What No access
  1. Chapter 1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
  2. Chapter 2 The Path to the Kinship Apocalypse No access Pages 17 - 46
  3. Chapter 3 Theory of Organizations No access Pages 47 - 70
  4. Chapter 4 Kinship and Biology No access Pages 71 - 104
  5. Chapter 5 Kinship Maps No access Pages 105 - 122
  6. Chapter 6 Ideas Attached to Kinship Maps No access Pages 123 - 142
  7. Chapter 7 Domestic Group Organizations No access Pages 143 - 162
  8. Chapter 8 The Hopi No access Pages 163 - 192
  9. Chapter 9 The Purum No access Pages 193 - 222
  10. Chapter 10 The Dravidian Problem Transformed No access Pages 223 - 238
  11. Chapter 11 Kinship, Logic, and Mathematics No access Pages 239 - 288
  12. Chapter 12 Conclusion No access Pages 289 - 300
  13. Glossary No access Pages 301 - 304
  14. References No access Pages 305 - 314
  15. Index No access Pages 315 - 322
  16. About the Authors No access Pages 323 - 324

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