Melanesian Kinship and Culture

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  • Name : Melanesian Kinship and Culture
  • Title : Melanesian Kinship and Culture
  • Date : 2004
  • descriptions
    • Description : Kin terminology structure and other social and cultural traits cluster in particular ways on a global level, such that “disharmonic” features can be interpreted as retentions of earlier systems, resulting from shifts in key aspects (such as a change from descent reckoning in the male line to the female line). We want to get at ancient patterns of social organisation and culture buried deep under a thick layer of Austronesian influence of much more recent origin. This can be done because in culture, as in language, features typically bundle in particular ways, and a mixed bouquet has a tale to tell. This task is designed to pick out any deviating features in particular societies to try and wrest from them their separate story of the distant past.
    • Description : Additional info: Volume 2004, filed under Pioneers of Island Melanesia. Tags: ethnography, kinship, questionnaire
    • Description : How to cite this resource:
    • Description : Lindström, E. (2004). Melanesian kinship and culture. In A. Majid (Ed.), Field Manual Volume 9 (pp. 70-73). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.1552190.
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    • Description : https://doi.org/10.17617/2.1552190
  • Location
    • Continent : Europe
    • Country : Netherlands
  • Project
    • Name : Language and Cognition Field Manuals
    • Contact
      • Organisation : Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
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      • Role : Researcher
      • Name : Eva Lindström
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