Saturday, January 17, 2009

Consanguines

"Relatives related to ego by descent or filiation and not by marriage are collectively called cognates or consanguines." Kinship: An Introduction to the Basic Concepts, by Robert Parkin (2007), p. 35.
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  1. TaleaJanuary 17, 2009 at 10:05 PM

    What is this dictionary of kinship terms? An archaeological book?

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  2. MoniqueJanuary 21, 2009 at 6:10 AM

    It's not a dictionary, actually, believe it or not. It's just supposedly a brave little book on what kinship is (apparently there was a dry spell of anti-kinship feelings for several years, and this author was the first to break through for a long time). It's actually a pretty neat little book, but he gets lost often (or loses me) in drawing together a web of relations in abstract theoretical terminology too complicated for me. It does give an excellent foundation in how anthropologists discuss kinship, however, and we're learning it in preparation for understanding kinship in ancient times.

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