Componential Analysis of Kinship Terminology
Componential Analysis of Kinship Terminology

Author: V. Pericliev

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-07-26

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1137031182

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This book presents the first computer program automating the task of componential analysis of kinship vocabularies. The book examines the program in relation to two basic problems: the commonly occurring inconsistency of componential models; and the huge number of alternative componential models.

Ten Lectures on Field Semantics and Semantic Typology
Ten Lectures on Field Semantics and Semantic Typology

Author: Jürgen Bohnemeyer

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10-21

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 9789004362611

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The first four lectures revolve around field semantics- research methods for studying linguistic meaning under fieldwork conditions. The remaining six lectures deal with semantic typology, the crosslinguistic study of how humans communicate about the world in terms of the meaning categories of the languages they speak. Together, the lectures present one of the first comprehensive introductions to either topic. A thread pervading the lectures involves the following questions: how much do languages vary in how they represent reality? To what extent does this variation reflect cultural differences? To what extent does it influence the nonverbal thinking of the speakers?

A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology
A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology

Author: David B. Kronenfeld

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-12-14

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 111911165X

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This new Companion traces the development of cognitive anthropology from its beginnings in the late 1950s to the present, and evaluates future directions of research in the field. In 29 contributions from leading anthropologists, there is an overview of cognitive and cultural structures, insights into how cognition works in everyday life and interacts with culture, and examples of contemporary research. A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology is essential for anyone interested in the questions of how culture shapes cognitive processes.

Essays on Culture Change
Essays on Culture Change

Author: Anthony F. C. Wallace

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780803298392

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In sixteen landmark essays Anthony F. C. Wallace illuminates the interconnections between cognition and culture and the formative social conditions of the modern world. Probing the psychological reality (or realities) of culture, Wallace offers incisive analyses of the cognitive foundations of kinship terms and the ability of cultures, past and present, to process complexity. He also examines whether beavers have a culture and reveals how the mazeway of modern American culture equips and enables a routine drive to work. In the volume?s second section, Wallace interrogates the consequences of revolutionary changes in labor, technology, and society in the modern world. A series of essays details the multifaceted, pervasive impact of the Industrial Revolution on the coal-mining communities of Rockdale and Saint Clair, Pennsylvania. He also considers the implications of the disaster-prone coal-mining industry for risky technological enterprises today, such as nuclear power plants. An in-depth comparison between the administrative structures of a modern university and Iroquois-Seneca leadership rounds out this volume.

Fanti Kinship and the Analysis of Kinship Terminologies
Fanti Kinship and the Analysis of Kinship Terminologies

Author: David B. Kronenfeld

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0252055845

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This book examines Fanti kinship terminology from a variety of analytic and formal perspectives. Based on work with a broad number of informants, David B. Kronenfeld details and analyzes internal variation in usage within the Fanti community, shows the relationship between terminology and social groups and communicative usage, and relates these findings to major theoretical work on kinship and on the intersections of language, thought, and culture. The terminological analysis in this study employs a great variety of formal approaches, assesses the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, and covers a wide range of types of usage. This work also performs a systematic, formal analysis of behavior patterns among kin, joining this approach with the analysis of a kinship terminological system. Rather than treating kinship terminology as a special, isolated piece of culture, this study also ties its analysis to more general semantic and cultural theoretical issues. Including computational and comparative studies of kinship terminologies, this volume represents the fullest analysis of any kinship terminological system in the ethnographic record.