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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.

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