a structural semantic analysis of Bear Lake Athapaskan kinship classification
Among the Bear Lake Athapaskan‐speaking Indians of Canada's Northwest Territories, kinship principles were in the past, and continue to be, among the most important features of social organization. To understand these principles it is first necessary to analyze the Bear Lake system of kinship c...
| Published in: | American Ethnologist |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
1982
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.1982.9.3.02a00070 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1525%2Fae.1982.9.3.02a00070 https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ae.1982.9.3.02a00070 |
| Summary: | Among the Bear Lake Athapaskan‐speaking Indians of Canada's Northwest Territories, kinship principles were in the past, and continue to be, among the most important features of social organization. To understand these principles it is first necessary to analyze the Bear Lake system of kinship classification — the description of which requires use of structural semantic analysis. Such a description is productive and accounts for the ability of Bear Lakers to appropriately classify an indefinite number of individuals. [Athapaskan, kinship, structural semantics] |
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