Fischer, Michael D and Leaf, Murray J. and Read, Dwight (2014) Kinship Terminologies, Hypothetical or Extant, Are Optimal Solutions. Working paper. Center for Human Complex Systems, UCLA, Los Angeles (KAR id:41704)
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Abstract
The claim that extant terminologies are optimal solutions in a space of all possible terminologies depends on invalidly assuming any partition of a set of genealogical relations is a possible kinship terminology. Instead, kinship terminologies have a particular type of logical/formal structure that is generative with categories providing for classification that is reciprocal. As a consequence, all terminologies, extant or hypothetical, are optimal solutions in the sense this term is used in the claim made about kinship terminologies.
| Item Type: | Reports and Papers (Working paper) |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | kinship terminologies, relationship terminologies, kinship, cultural models, optimality, communication |
| Subjects: |
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BC Logic G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA150 Algebra Q Science > QH Natural history |
| Institutional Unit: | Schools > School of Natural Sciences > Conservation |
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Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation
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| Depositing User: | Michael Fischer |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2014 04:08 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2025 12:21 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/41704 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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