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Kinship Algebra

 

The analysis of human kinship systems in algebraic terms.

 

Key Readings
 

  • John Paul Boyd (1969) “The Algebra of Group Kinship” Journal of Mathematical Psychology 6:139-167.

    • Erratum J. Math. Psychology 9:339 (1972)

     

Additional

  

 

Bibliography

 

Theory

  • WHITE, Harrison. 1963. An Anatomy of Kinship: Mathematical Models for Structures of Cumulated Roles. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall.

  • John Paul Boyd (1969) “The Algebra of Group Kinship” Journal of Mathematical Psychology 6:139-167.

    • Erratum J. Math. Psychology 9:339 (1972)

  • Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1949. Les Structures elementaires de la parente, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, ed. *Rodney Needham, trans. J. H. Bell, J. R. von Sturmer, and Rodney Needham, 1969.

  • TJON SIE FAT, Franklin E. 1990. Representing Kinship: Simple Models of Elementary Structures. Standort: FB f.Ethnologie: Gesellschaft 673.

  • Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1930. Must Kinship Studies Be Dehumanised by Mock Algebra? Man 30:256-257.

  • Read, Dwight. 2000/2001. Formal Analysis of Kinship Terminologies and its Relationship to what constitutes Kinship. Mathematical Anthropology and Culture Theory 1(1):1-46. Anthropological Theory 1:239-256.

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