New perspectives on kinship: Overcoming the eurocentrism and scientism of kinship studies through lexical universals

Anna Wierzbicka

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New perspectives on kinship: Overcoming the eurocentrism and scientism of kinship studies through lexical universals

Anna Wierzbicka^*

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School of Literature, Languages & Linguistics

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In a wide-ranging recent debate on kinship studies in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences, linguist and cognitive scientist Stephen Levinson writes (2010: 392): “The neglect of kinship in current anthropology and in the cognitive sciences is not far short of a scandal. Humans are the categorizing species, and kinship systems categorize our own most significant others, so reflecting fundamental forms of social organization”.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Pages	62-79
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781135050900
ISBN (Print)	9780415834100
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203492741-12
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015

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