Comparative phylogenetic methods and the study of pattern and process in kinship
Jordan, F.
(2013). Comparative phylogenetic methods and the study of pattern and process in kinship. In P. McConvell, I. Keen, & R. Hendery (
Eds.),
Kinship systems: Change and reconstruction (pp. 43-58). Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press.
Anthropology began by comparing aspects of kinship across cultures, while linguists interested in semantic domains such as kinship necessarily compare across languages. In this chapter I show how phylogenetic comparative methods from evolutionary biology can be used to study evolutionary processes relating to kinship and kinship terminologies across language and culture.
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