Cultural Evolution of Kinship Diversity: Variation in Language, Cognition, and Social Norms Regarding Family

Project Information

VARIKIN

Grant agreement ID: 639291

DOI 10.3030/639291

Project closed

EC signature date 5 June 2015

Start date 1 July 2015

End date 30 June 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 233 672,00

EU contribution € 1 233 672,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
United Kingdom

Publications

Other (1)

VariKin-Development Field Kit

Author(s): Alice Mitchell, Fiona M. Jordan, Joe Blythe, Jo Hickey-Hall
Published in: Open Science Framework, 2019
Publisher: Center for Open Science
DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/fge5h

Peer reviewed articles (16)

The Ontogeny of Kinship Categorization

Author(s): Alice Mitchell, Fiona M. Jordan
Published in: Journal of Cognition and Culture, Issue 21/1-2, 2021, Page(s) 152-177, ISSN 1567-7095
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12340101

Kinship, seniority, and rights to know in Datooga children's everyday interaction

Author(s): Alice Mitchell, Fiona M. Jordan
Published in: Journal of Pragmatics, Issue 181, 2021, Page(s) 49-61, ISSN 0378-2166
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.04.029

Kin Against Kin: Internal Co-selection and the Coherence of Kinship Typologies

Author(s): Sam Passmore, Wolfgang Barth, Kyla Quinn, Simon J. Greenhill, Nicholas Evans, Fiona M. Jordan
Published in: Biological Theory, Issue Kin Against Kin: Internal Co-selection and the Coherence of Kinship Typologies, 2021, ISSN 1555-5542
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s13752-021-00379-6

No universals in the cultural evolution of kinship terminology

Author(s): Sam Passmore, Fiona M. Jordan
Published in: Evolutionary Human Sciences, Issue 2, 2020, ISSN 2513-843X
Publisher: Evolutionary Human Sciences
DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2020.41

D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity

Author(s): Kathryn R. Kirby, Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill, Fiona M. Jordan, Stephanie Gomes-Ng, Hans-Jörg Bibiko, Damián E. Blasi, Carlos A. Botero, Claire Bowern, Carol R. Ember, Dan Leehr, Bobbi S. Low, Joe McCarter, William Divale, Michael C. Gavin
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 11/7, 2016, Page(s) e0158391, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158391

A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family

Author(s): Vishnupriya Kolipakam, Fiona M. Jordan, Michael Dunn, Simon J. Greenhill, Remco Bouckaert, Russell D. Gray, Annemarie Verkerk
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 5/3, 2018, Page(s) 171504, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society Open Science
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171504

Social Salience Discriminates Learnability of Contextual Cues in an Artificial Language

Author(s): Péter Rácz, Jennifer B. Hay, Janet B. Pierrehumbert
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 8, 2017, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00051

Usage frequency and lexical class determine the evolution of kinship terms in Indo-European

Author(s): Péter Rácz, Sam Passmore, Catherine Sheard, Fiona M. Jordan
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 6/10, 2019, Page(s) 191385, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society Open Science
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.191385

Social Practice and Shared History, Not Social Scale, Structure Cross‐Cultural Complexity in Kinship Systems

Author(s): Péter Rácz, Sam Passmore, Fiona M. Jordan
Published in: Topics in Cognitive Science, Issue 4 June 2019, 2019, ISSN 1756-8757
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12430

Deep cultural ancestry and human development indicators across nation states

Author(s): Roland B. Sookias, Samuel Passmore, Quentin D. Atkinson
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 5/4, 2018, Page(s) 171411, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society Open Science
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171411

Allusive References and Other-Oriented Stance in an Affinal Avoidance Register

Author(s): Alice Mitchell
Published in: Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Issue 28/1, 2018, Page(s) 4-21, ISSN 1055-1360
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/jola.12174

Nota sobre o sistema de parentesco em Proto-Tupí-Guaraní

Author(s): Joshua Birchall, Luis Henrique Oliveira, Fiona M. Jordan
Published in: Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, Issue 14/1, 2019, Page(s) 79-99, ISSN 1981-8122
Publisher: Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi
DOI: 10.1590/1981.81222019000100006

Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution

Author(s): Jiří C. Moravec, Quentin Atkinson, Claire Bowern, Simon J. Greenhill, Fiona M. Jordan, Robert M. Ross, Russell Gray, Stephen Marsland, Murray P. Cox
Published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, Issue 39/6, 2018, Page(s) 594-601, ISSN 1090-5138
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.06.002

Children's Knowledge of a Name‐Based Avoidance Register: A Quantitative Study among Datooga of Tanzania

Author(s): Alice Mitchell, Péter Marton Rácz
Published in: American Anthropologist, Issue 11/04/2021, 2021, ISSN 0002-7294
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/aman.13579

Pama–Nyungan grandparent systems change with grandchildren, but not cross-cousin terms or social norms

Author(s): Catherine Sheard, Claire Bowern, Rikker Dockum, Fiona M. Jordan
Published in: Evolutionary Human Sciences, Issue 2, 2020, ISSN 2513-843X
Publisher: Evolutionary Human Sciences
DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2020.31

Acquiring the lexicon and grammar of universal kinship

Author(s): Joe Blythe, Jeremiah Tunmuck, Alice Mitchell, Péter Rácz
Published in: Language, Issue 96/3, 2020, Page(s) 661-695, ISSN 1535-0665
Publisher: Language
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2020.0044

Conference proceedings (2)

Cognitive and Adaptive-Historical Explanations for Kinship Diversity

Author(s): Peter Racz, Fiona Jordan
Published in: CogSci 2017 Proceedings, Issue 2017, 2017, Page(s) Anthropological Contributions to Cognitive Science, ISBN 978-0-9911967-6-0
Publisher: CogSci

Egocentric and allocentric learning of social-indexical meaning in American English, Datooga, and Murrinhpatha

Author(s): Péter Rácz, Alice Mitchell, Joe Blythe
Published in: CogSci 2018 Proceedings, 2018, Page(s) 2303–2308, ISBN 978-0-9911967-8-4
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

Book chapters (2)

The pragmatics of a kinship term: The meaning and use of íiyá ‘mother’ in Datooga (Nilotic)

Author(s): by Raija Kramer (Editor) (Author), Roland Kießling (Editor) (Author), Torben Andersen (Contributor), Klaus Beyer (Contributor), Ines Fiedler (Contributor), Orin Gensler (Contributor), Jeff Good (Contributor), Tom Güldemann (Contributor), Bernd Heine (Contributor), Birgit Hellwig (Contributor), Gudrun Miehe (Contributor), Alice Mitchell (Contributor)
Published in: Mechthildian Approaches to Afrikanistik: Advances in language based research on Africa. Festschrift für Mechthild Reh,, Issue 2017, 2017, Page(s) 287–301, ISBN 978-3896-452269
Publisher: Rüdiger Köppe.

"""Oh, bald father!”: Kinship and swearing among Datooga of Tanzania"

Author(s): Nico Nassenstein (Editor), Anne Storch (Editor), Alice Mitchell
Published in: Swearing and Cursing: Contexts and Practices in a Critical Linguistic Perspective, 2020, ISBN 978-1-5015-1120-2
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter