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The genius of kinship : the phenomenon of human kinship and the global diversity of kinship terminologies
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The genius of kinship : the phenomenon of human kinship and the global diversity of kinship terminologies

Author: German V Dziebel
Publisher: Youngstown, N.Y. : Cambria Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Lewis Henry Morgan
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: German V Dziebel
ISBN: 9781934043653 1934043656
OCLC Number: 137331452
Description: xxiv, 540 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The invention of Lewis H. Morgan and the genesis of kinship --
Philosophy, psychology, and physiology --
Logic, semiotics, and reproduction --
Religion, hermeneutics, and evolution --
Law, grammar, and speech --
Anthropology, law, linguistics, psychology, and biology : kinship studies in the 20th century --
Consanguinity, affinity, adoption, divorce, and mortality : the structure of a symbolic system --
Kinship and the current studies of human evolutionary history --
Kinship and language --
The basic logical pattern --
The historical typology of kin terminological systems --
The range of horizontal and vertical variation in kin terminologies --
Ancestral pattern : "Dravidian," "Kariera," or neither --
Sibling typology --
Correlations between sibling types and cross-generational equations --
The specificity of American Indian kinship structures and their significance for kinship theory --
Case studies --
The problem of the peopling of the Americas in the context of the out-of-Africa model of human dispersals --
Integrating the evidence from the evolution of kinship systems into an interdisciplinary model of ancient human dispersals.
Responsibility: German V. Dziebel.
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