9 results on '"Jordan, Fiona M."'
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2. Matrilocal Residence Is Ancestral in Austronesian Societies
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Jordan, Fiona M., Gray, Russell D., Greenhill, Simon J., and Mace, Ruth
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- 2009
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3. Kinship, seniority, and rights to know in Datooga children's everyday interaction
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Mitchell, Alice and Jordan, Fiona M.
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050101 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Sample (statistics) ,Special Interest Group ,050105 experimental psychology ,Language and Linguistics ,Social relation ,Epistemics ,Negotiation ,Empirical research ,Artificial Intelligence ,Kinship ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Sociology ,Seniority ,Social psychology ,media_common - Abstract
This paper explores the epistemics of social relations among Datooga-speaking children of rural Tanzania. It describes two linguistic resources for epistemic management in the Datooga language, namely, questions and an epistemic particle neada. The paper then investigates children's use of these two resources in a 3.5 h sample of children's spontaneous interaction, taken from a video corpus. Questions often establish epistemic asymmetries by positioning addressees as more knowledgeable, while use of the particle neada projects speech participants' equal rights to know, typically in emphatic contrast to the epistemic implications of an earlier turn. Of special interest is how children's negotiation of rights to know reveals sensitivity to social relations, particularly those defined by kinship and age. Though by no means ever-present, concepts of kinship and seniority are made relevant in these children's interactions. Children oriented to kinship relations when deferring to other people's rights to know about their own kin, and they positioned speech participants in junior–senior relationships when requesting generalizable knowledge. The paper contributes to empirical research on children's everyday language use with insights from a rural African community.
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- 2021
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4. Kin Term Borrowings in the World's Languages.
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Honkola, Terhi and Jordan, Fiona M.
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UNIVERSAL language ,SOCIAL dynamics ,VOCABULARY ,KINSHIP ,SOCIAL change ,DATABASES - Abstract
The universality of kinship terms means they are regarded, like much basic vocabulary, as resistant to borrowing. Kin term borrowings are documented at varying frequencies, but their role in the dynamics of change in this core social domain is understudied. We investigated the dimensions and the sociolinguistic contexts of kinship borrowings with 50 kinship categories from a global sample of 32 languages, a subset extracted from the World Loanword Database. We found that more borrowings take place in affinal kin categories and in generations denoting relatives older than ego. Close kin categories also have borrowings, but the borrowed items usually coexist with other, presumably non-borrowed variants. Colonisation and the spread of cultures and religions were main inducing forces for kin term borrowings; new terms often enter a language via bilingualism. These tentative patterns can be studied further with larger datasets in future systematic studies of kinship borrowings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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5. The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies: Models, Conditions, and Consequences.
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Keen, Ian, Dousset, Laurent, Fox, James J., Gaby, Alice, Layton, Robert, Morphy, Howard, Morphy, Frances, Read, Dwight, Sheard, Catherine, and Jordan, Fiona M.
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KINSHIP ,TERMS & phrases ,EASTERN Arrernte language ,NGARINYIN (Australian people) ,NGARINYIN language ,YOLNGU languages - Abstract
This article proposes that the more complex and highly differentiated Australian Aboriginal kin terminologies such as those belonging to the Arrernte, Ngarinyin, and Yolngu languages evolved from simpler, less differentiated terminologies similar in form to those classified by Radcliffe-Brown as the Kariera type. The article offers models of that evolution and discusses when these developments may have occurred, as well as some of the implications for the diversity of Aboriginal societies. Along the way, it reconsiders the classification of Australian kin terminologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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6. No universals in the cultural evolution of kinship terminology
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Passmore, Sam and Jordan, Fiona M.
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Cultural Studies ,Structure (mathematical logic) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,050109 social psychology ,Bantu languages ,Sister ,Problem of universals ,Article ,050105 experimental psychology ,Genealogy ,Kinship terminology ,Anthropology ,Kinship ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Sociology ,Sociocultural evolution ,Applied Psychology ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Diversity (politics) ,media_common - Abstract
Kinship terminologies are the semantic systems of language that express kinship relations between individuals: in English, 'aunt' denotes a parent's sister. Theoretical models of kinship terminology diversity reduce over 10 billion possible organisations to six key types, each of which are hypothesised to be aligned with particular cultural norms of descent, marriage or residence patterns (Murdock, 1949). Often, terminological type is used to infer social patterns in past societies based on these putative relationships between kinship terminologies and social structure, and these associations are staples of 'Anthropology 101'. However, these relationships have not been scrutinised using modern comparative methods. Here we show that kinship terminologies vertically track language phylogeny in Austronesian, Bantu, and Uto-Aztecan, three languages families of different time-depths and environments. We find no unidirectional or universal models of evolution in kinship terminology. Of 18 existing anthropological coevolutionary theories regarding kinship terminology and cultural practices across 176 societies, we find only patchy support, and no evidence for putative universal drivers of evolution in kinship terminologies.
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- 2020
7. The Ontogeny of Kinship Categorization.
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Mitchell, Alice and Jordan, Fiona M.
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KINSHIP , *DEVELOPMENTAL psychology , *ONTOGENY , *COGNITIVE science , *PSYCHOLOGICAL research - Abstract
Human kinship systems play a central role in social organization, as anthropologists have long demonstrated. Much less is known about how cultural schemas of relatedness are transmitted across generations. How do children learn kinship concepts? To what extent is learning affected by known cross-cultural variation in how humans classify kin? This review draws on research in developmental psychology, linguistics, and anthropology to present our current understanding of the social and cognitive foundations of kinship categorization. Amid growing interest in kinship in the cognitive sciences, the paper aims to stimulate new research on the ontogeny of kinship categorization, a rich domain for studying the nexus of language, culture, and cognition. We introduce an interdisciplinary research toolkit to help streamline future research in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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8. Social Practice and Shared History, Not Social Scale, Structure Cross‐Cultural Complexity in Kinship Systems.
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Rácz, Péter, Passmore, Sam, and Jordan, Fiona M.
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KINSHIP ,SOCIAL perception ,SOCIAL learning ,POPULATION ,CROSS-cultural studies - Abstract
Human populations display remarkable diversity in language and culture, but the variation is not without limit. At the population level, variation between societies may be structured by a range of macro‐evolutionary factors, including ecological and environmental resources, shared ancestry, spatial proximity, and covarying social practices. Kinship terminology systems are varying linguistic paradigms that denote familial social relationships of kin and non‐kin. Systems vary by the kinds of salient distinctions that are made (e.g., age, gender, generation) and the extent to which different kinds of kin are called by the same term. Here, we explore two kinds of explanations for an observed typology of kin terms for cousins. The first one derives the typology from a learning bottleneck linked to population size. This would lead to a correlation between community size and the type of kinship system. The second one derives it from a set of social practices, particularly marriage and transfer of resources that might shape kinship systems. Using a global ethnographic database of over a thousand societies, we show that marriage rules and shared linguistic affiliation have a significant influence on the type of kinship system found in a society. This remains true if we control for the effect of spatial proximity and cultural ancestry. By combining cognitive and historic approaches to this aspect of kinship, we suggest broader implications for the study of human social cognition in general. Kinship terminologies are basic cognitive semantic systems that all human societies use for organizing kin relations. Diversity in kinship systems and their categories is substantial, but constrained. Rácz, Passmore, and Jordan explore hypotheses about such constraints from learning theories and social pressures, testing the impact of a community‐size driven learning bottleneck against the social coordination demands of different kinds of marriage and resource systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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9. Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution.
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Moravec, Jiří C., Atkinson, Quentin, Bowern, Claire, Greenhill, Simon J., Jordan, Fiona M., Ross, Robert M., Gray, Russell, Marsland, Stephen, and Cox, Murray P.
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DWELLINGS ,MARRIED people ,WAR & society ,PHYLOGENETIC models ,CROSS-cultural studies - Abstract
Abstract Where a newly-married couple lives, termed post-marital residence, varies cross-culturally and changes over time. While many factors have been proposed as drivers of this change, among them general features of human societies like warfare, migration and gendered division of subsistence labour, little is known about whether changes in residence patterns exhibit global regularities. Here, we study ethnographic observations of post-marital residence in societies from five large language families (Austronesian, Bantu, Indo-European, Pama-Nyungan and Uto-Aztecan), encompassing 371 ethnolinguistic groups ranging widely in local ecologies and lifeways, and covering over half the world's population and geographical area. We apply Bayesian comparative methods to test the hypothesis that post-marital residence patterns have evolved in similar ways across different geographical regions. By reconstructing past post-marital residence states, we compare transition rates and models of evolution across groups, while integrating the historical descent relationships of human societies. We find that each language family possesses its own best fitting model, demonstrating that the mode and pace of post-marital residence evolution is lineage-specific rather than global. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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