Computer Methods for Analyzing Genealogical Space

Autor: Allan D. Coult, Richard R. Randolph
Rok vydání: 1965
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Zdroj: American Anthropologist. 67:21-29
ISSN: 1548-1433
0002-7294
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1965.67.1.02a00020
Popis: ANTHROPOLOGISTS have long been concerned with the genealogical analysis of systems of endogamic marriage, particularly with systems having some form of cousin marriage. Hitherto, however, it has been virtually impossible to do extensive analyses of actual marriages, and, therefore, the concern has been with such indirect indicators of marriage as expressed rules and preferences and kinship terminology (cf. e.g., Coult 1962a, 1962b, 1964; Coult and Hammel 1963; Hammel 1960; Homans and Schneider 1955; Levi-Strauss 1949; Needham 1962). The difficulty in analyzing actual marriages stems from the fact that any attempt to determine how spouses are related to one another, except as spouses, is an enormous task if manual methods of tracing relationships are employed. The magnitude of this task may be judged from the numbers of kin-types that occur at yarious genealogical levels. These numbers and the method of computing them are discussed below.
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