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

Fanti Kinship and the Analysis of Kinship Terminologies

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252033704
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By David B. Kronenfeld
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Pages: 392

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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. Including computational and comparative studies of kinship terminologies, this volume represents the fullest analysis of any kinship terminological system in the ethnographic record.

''Kronenfeld's mastery of Fanti kinship, including social, linguistic, and semantic aspects, is of the very highest quality. He has a wide and masterful knowledge of the details of the research he discusses. He exhibits total integrity in presenting data as well as objective criteria for its interpretation. The outcome is one of the richest descriptions and theoretical interpretations of how kinship terminology and behavior actually operate in society.'' A. Kimball Romney, research professor, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine

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