The Genius of Kinship:  The Phenomenon of Human Kinship and the Global Diversity of Kinship Terminologies
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List of Figures

Figure 1. The basic ontological constraints on the field of kinship.

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Figure 2. Correlations between linguistic and kin terminological functions.

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Figure 3. Division of dominance.

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Figure 4. The basic categorical matrix of kin terminologies in three medial generations.

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Figure 5. The structural transformation of self-reciprocal terminology into “Crow-Omaha.”

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Figure 6. The phylogeny of Kartvelian sibling terminologies superimposed on the branching order of Kartvelian languages.

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Figure 7. Phylogeny and basic distribution of the 10 most frequent and/or structurally important types of sibling terminologies.

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Figure 8. The combined evolutionary sequence of cross-generational and sibling patterns.

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