Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2010 - Volume 33, Issue 05  

Open Peer Commentary

Conceptual implications of kinship terminological systems: Special problems and multiple analytic approaches

David B. Kronenfelda1

a1 Department of Anthropology, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521. david.kronenfeld@ucr.edu pages.sbcglobal.net/david-judy/david.html

Abstract

I raise issues concerning Jones' Seneca analysis, its relationship to analyses of Dravidian-, Crow-, and Omaha-type systems. These affect the convincingness of his kinship study, and thus the wider conclusions that he wants to draw regarding human cognition and language.

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