Premium
Fanti Kinship: The Structure of Terminology and Behavior 1
Author(s) -
KRONENFELD DAVID B.
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.1973.75.5.02a00240
Subject(s) - kinship , ascription , terminology , hierarchy , simple (philosophy) , linguistics , sociology , reflection (computer programming) , product (mathematics) , genealogy , epistemology , history , computer science , mathematics , anthropology , philosophy , political science , geometry , law , programming language
This article compares the results of a formal analysis of the three variant patterns of the Fanti kinship terminology and the marking hierarchy they form with the results of a multi‐dimensional scaling and linear regression analysis of the bases of Fanti ascription of behavior to kinsmen. Terminological categories are shown to be a product of, but not a simple reflection of, patterns of behavior in the culture.