Undertanding Human Relations (Kinship Systems)

Laurent Dousset (1)

1 CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie

Everywhere humans structure their social field, amongst others, by way of what is called a kinship system. Such systems include aspects of language (kinship terminology), aspects of practice and strategy (marriage, normative behaviours) and aspects of transmission and social reproduction (inheritance and descent). This chapter provides the theoretical and methodological tools to investigate this important social field.

Mots clés: Anthropologie; Linguistique; Parenté; Terrain; Méthode

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Linguistique

Laurent Dousset. Undertanding Human Relations (Kinship Systems). N. Thieberger. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork, Oxford University Press, pp.209-234, 2011. ⟨halshs-00653097⟩