Language in the constitution of kinship

Ian Keen

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    Abstract

    Kinship has been an “essentially contested concept” in social and cultural anthropology. Nevertheless, linguistic and anthropological linguistic studies of kinship terminologies, grammar, and pragmatics have developed in parallel with anthropological ones. Lacking, however, is a broad overview of the range of linguistic variation across languages that would build a bridge between the linguistics and anthropology of kinship. Toward that end, this article explores the role of language in the constitution of kinship. It asks, on what linguistic resources do people of different cultures and languages draw in order to constitute kinship as an institution?.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1-53
    Number of pages53
    JournalAnthropological Linguistics
    Volume56
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

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