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Kinship Categories

Kinship Categories is a theoretical construct in anthropological linguistics that classifies kin relations into culturally specific groupings based on structural distinctions such as lineage, generation, gender, and affinal ties, thereby enabling systematic analysis of how languages encode familial relationships.

427

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31.3K

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577

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259

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2017–2026

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Publications

427

Family resemblances: Studies in the internal structure of categories

Eleanor Rosch, Carolyn Β. Mervis · Cognitive Psychology · 1975 · 5.9K citations

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American Kinship: A Cultural Account.

Maurice Bloch, David M. Schneider · Man · 1972 · 1.5K citations

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Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã

Daniel L. Everett · Current Anthropology · 2005 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship

Linda Stone · American Ethnologist · 2001 · 1.1K citations

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After nature: English kinship in the late twentieth century

Choice Reviews Online · 1992 · 999 citations

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Authors

577

  1. DR
    Dwight Read

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    12 publications · 540 citations

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  2. FM
    Fiona M. Jordan

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 281 citations

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  3. HW
    Harold W. Scheffler

    Yale University, United States

    6 publications · 197 citations

    6

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  4. LD
    Laurent Dousset

    Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur les Amériques, France

    6 publications · 263 citations

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  5. PH
    Per Hage

    University of Utah, United States

    6 publications · 137 citations

    6

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1–5 of 577

Institutions

259

  1. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    11 h-index

    20 publications

    1K citations

  2. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    396 citations

  3. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    11 publications

    226 citations

  4. University of Utah

    Salt Lake City, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    265 citations

  5. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    6 h-index

    12 publications

    815 citations

  6. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    235 citations

  7. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    21 publications

    842 citations

  8. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    195 citations

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Venues

  1. Man

    34 publications · 3.8K citations

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  2. American Anthropologist

    35 publications · 1.1K citations

    18

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  3. American Ethnologist

    AE · 20 publications · 1.9K citations

    14

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  4. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology

    15 publications · 354 citations

    13

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  5. Current Anthropology

    CA · 11 publications · 1.7K citations

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