TY - JOUR
T1 - Language in the constitution of kinship
AU - Keen, Ian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - 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?.
AB - 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?.
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U2 - 10.1353/anl.2014.0000
DO - 10.1353/anl.2014.0000
M3 - Article
SN - 0003-5483
VL - 56
SP - 1
EP - 53
JO - Anthropological Linguistics
JF - Anthropological Linguistics
IS - 1
ER -