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Kinship terms are not kinship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2010

Maurice Bloch
Maurice Bloch
Affiliation:
London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom. m.e.bloch@lse.ac.ukwww2.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/people/bloch.aspx
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Abstract

The target paper claims to contribute to the conceptualisation of kinship but is, in fact, only concerned with descriptive kinship terminologies. It uses Optimal Theory to analyse this vocabulary but it is not clear if this is to be understood as a psychological phenomenon. Jones does not make clear how this special vocabulary might relate to kinship in general.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 5 , October 2010 , pp. 384
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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