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Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology

For a single species, human kinship organization is both remarkably diverse and strikingly organized. Kinship terminology is the structured vocabulary used to classify, refer to, and address relatives and family. Diversity in kinship terminology has been analyzed by anthropologists for over 150 year...

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Autores principales: Passmore, Sam, Barth, Wolfgang, Greenhill, Simon J., Quinn, Kyla, Sheard, Catherine, Argyriou, Paraskevi, Birchall, Joshua, Bowern, Claire, Calladine, Jasmine, Deb, Angarika, Diederen, Anouk, Metsäranta, Niklas P., Araujo, Luis Henrique, Schembri, Rhiannon, Hickey-Hall, Jo, Honkola, Terhi, Mitchell, Alice, Poole, Lucy, Rácz, Péter M., Roberts, Sean G., Ross, Robert M., Thomas-Colquhoun, Ewan, Evans, Nicholas, Jordan, Fiona M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10208500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37224178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283218
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author Passmore, Sam
Barth, Wolfgang
Greenhill, Simon J.
Quinn, Kyla
Sheard, Catherine
Argyriou, Paraskevi
Birchall, Joshua
Bowern, Claire
Calladine, Jasmine
Deb, Angarika
Diederen, Anouk
Metsäranta, Niklas P.
Araujo, Luis Henrique
Schembri, Rhiannon
Hickey-Hall, Jo
Honkola, Terhi
Mitchell, Alice
Poole, Lucy
Rácz, Péter M.
Roberts, Sean G.
Ross, Robert M.
Thomas-Colquhoun, Ewan
Evans, Nicholas
Jordan, Fiona M.
author_facet Passmore, Sam
Barth, Wolfgang
Greenhill, Simon J.
Quinn, Kyla
Sheard, Catherine
Argyriou, Paraskevi
Birchall, Joshua
Bowern, Claire
Calladine, Jasmine
Deb, Angarika
Diederen, Anouk
Metsäranta, Niklas P.
Araujo, Luis Henrique
Schembri, Rhiannon
Hickey-Hall, Jo
Honkola, Terhi
Mitchell, Alice
Poole, Lucy
Rácz, Péter M.
Roberts, Sean G.
Ross, Robert M.
Thomas-Colquhoun, Ewan
Evans, Nicholas
Jordan, Fiona M.
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description For a single species, human kinship organization is both remarkably diverse and strikingly organized. Kinship terminology is the structured vocabulary used to classify, refer to, and address relatives and family. Diversity in kinship terminology has been analyzed by anthropologists for over 150 years, although recurrent patterning across cultures remains incompletely explained. Despite the wealth of kinship data in the anthropological record, comparative studies of kinship terminology are hindered by data accessibility. Here we present Kinbank, a new database of 210,903 kinterms from a global sample of 1,229 spoken languages. Using open-access and transparent data provenance, Kinbank offers an extensible resource for kinship terminology, enabling researchers to explore the rich diversity of human family organization and to test longstanding hypotheses about the origins and drivers of recurrent patterns. We illustrate our contribution with two examples. We demonstrate strong gender bias in the phonological structure of parent terms across 1,022 languages, and we show that there is no evidence for a coevolutionary relationship between cross-cousin marriage and bifurcate-merging terminology in Bantu languages. Analysing kinship data is notoriously challenging; Kinbank aims to eliminate data accessibility issues from that challenge and provide a platform to build an interdisciplinary understanding of kinship.
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spelling pubmed-102085002023-05-25 Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology Passmore, Sam Barth, Wolfgang Greenhill, Simon J. Quinn, Kyla Sheard, Catherine Argyriou, Paraskevi Birchall, Joshua Bowern, Claire Calladine, Jasmine Deb, Angarika Diederen, Anouk Metsäranta, Niklas P. Araujo, Luis Henrique Schembri, Rhiannon Hickey-Hall, Jo Honkola, Terhi Mitchell, Alice Poole, Lucy Rácz, Péter M. Roberts, Sean G. Ross, Robert M. Thomas-Colquhoun, Ewan Evans, Nicholas Jordan, Fiona M. PLoS One Research Article For a single species, human kinship organization is both remarkably diverse and strikingly organized. Kinship terminology is the structured vocabulary used to classify, refer to, and address relatives and family. Diversity in kinship terminology has been analyzed by anthropologists for over 150 years, although recurrent patterning across cultures remains incompletely explained. Despite the wealth of kinship data in the anthropological record, comparative studies of kinship terminology are hindered by data accessibility. Here we present Kinbank, a new database of 210,903 kinterms from a global sample of 1,229 spoken languages. Using open-access and transparent data provenance, Kinbank offers an extensible resource for kinship terminology, enabling researchers to explore the rich diversity of human family organization and to test longstanding hypotheses about the origins and drivers of recurrent patterns. We illustrate our contribution with two examples. We demonstrate strong gender bias in the phonological structure of parent terms across 1,022 languages, and we show that there is no evidence for a coevolutionary relationship between cross-cousin marriage and bifurcate-merging terminology in Bantu languages. Analysing kinship data is notoriously challenging; Kinbank aims to eliminate data accessibility issues from that challenge and provide a platform to build an interdisciplinary understanding of kinship. Public Library of Science 2023-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10208500/ /pubmed/37224178 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283218 Text en © 2023 Passmore et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Passmore, Sam
Barth, Wolfgang
Greenhill, Simon J.
Quinn, Kyla
Sheard, Catherine
Argyriou, Paraskevi
Birchall, Joshua
Bowern, Claire
Calladine, Jasmine
Deb, Angarika
Diederen, Anouk
Metsäranta, Niklas P.
Araujo, Luis Henrique
Schembri, Rhiannon
Hickey-Hall, Jo
Honkola, Terhi
Mitchell, Alice
Poole, Lucy
Rácz, Péter M.
Roberts, Sean G.
Ross, Robert M.
Thomas-Colquhoun, Ewan
Evans, Nicholas
Jordan, Fiona M.
Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology
title Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology
title_full Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology
title_fullStr Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology
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title_sort kinbank: a global database of kinship terminology
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10208500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37224178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283218
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