descriptive kinship term

...It was LH Morgan who first systematically studied kinship terms, linking them to marriage, technology, economics, and political systems, and attempted to reconstruct the grand history of human culture. In "Systems of Kinship and Marriage in the Human Family" (1871), Morgan distinguished kinship terms into classificatory kinship terms (a form in which several kinship categories are grouped together by one name) and descriptive kinship terms (a form in which each kinship category is designated by its own name), and classified Malay-type kinship terms and Tolanian-Ghanowanian kinship terms into the former, and Aryan-Semitic kinship terms into the latter. He then argued that kinship terms evolved from the Malay type in the direction of the Aryan-Semitic type. ...

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…親族名称を初めて体系的に研究し，婚姻，技術，経済，政治制度などと関連づけて，壮大な人類文化史の再構成を試みたのはL.H.モーガンである。《人類家族の血縁と婚姻の諸体系》(1871)のなかでモーガンは親族名称を類別的親族名称classificatory kinship term(いくつかの親族的範疇が一つの名称でくくられた形式)と記述的親族名称descriptive kinship term(個々の親族的範疇がそれぞれ固有の名称で指示される形式)に区別し，前者にマレー型親族名称とトラニア･ガノワニア型親族名称を，後者にアーリア･セム型親族名称を分類した。そして親族名称はマレー型からアーリア･セム型の方向へと進化するという。…

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