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Kwara?ae Ethnoglottochronology: Procedures Used by Malaita Cannibals for Determining Percentages of Shared Cognates 1
Author(s) -
KEESING ROGER M.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1973.75.5.02a00060
Subject(s) - elegance , productivity , ethnography , psychology , computer science , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , economics , anthropology , macroeconomics
How hungry Kwara?ae cannibals are to divide a slain relative poses a non‐trivial formal problem for the savage mind. Here a mathematical model is proposed for the rigorous segmentation of a corpus—keeping in mind the highest ethnoscience standards of ethnographic rigor, psychological reality, methodological precision, explicitness, productivity, elegance, replicability, incomprehensibility, and irrelevance.