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LOGIQUES TERMINOLOGIQUES

India and the Study of Kinship Terminologies

Thomas R. Trautmann
p. 559-572

Abstracts

The study of kinship terminologies grew out of the eighteenth-century project of linguistic ethnology, which sought to uncover the historical relations among nations by determining the relations among languages, using lists of core vocabulary items including kinship terms. Lewis H. Morgan was the first to conceptualize the kinship terminology as an integrated set. India and the Dravidian kinship terminology have played a large role in the history of kinship study. Most modern advances in the study of kinship terminology are owed to structuralism, though the contributions of evolutionism are not entirely in the past, and those of historicism lie largely in the future.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Thomas R. Trautmann, “India and the Study of Kinship Terminologies”L’Homme, 154-155 | 2000, 559-572.

Electronic reference

Thomas R. Trautmann, “India and the Study of Kinship Terminologies”L’Homme [Online], 154-155 | avril-septembre 2000, Online since 18 May 2007, connection on 16 April 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/lhomme/49; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.49

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About the author

Thomas R. Trautmann

Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

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