Sociology & Anthropology · Family, Kinship & Community
A topic within Family, Kinship & Community, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Sociology & Anthropology.
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Lewis Henry Morgan
Compares kinship terminologies across more than a hundred societies and argues that the different systems for naming relatives track underlying stages of family and marriage organisation rather than being arbitrary.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Warren Shapiro (ed.)
Collects essays testing whether kinship terminologies worldwide are organised around a small set of focal, extendable relationships, arguing for and against Scheffler's formal account of how kin categories are built.
link checked 17 Sept 2026