vicos and ‘non-linguistic’ relations: visualizing kinship systems

ViCoSand

‘non-linguistic’ relations:

Visualizing Kinship Systems

Carolina Pasamonik (University of Cologne)DoBeS Team Beaver

I. Ideas & Goals

II. Overview Beaver Kinship & Social Organization

III. ViCoS for representation of kinship data

IV. ViCoS Wishlist

Structure of the talk:

Why deal with Kinship Systems?

- unstructured knowledge space

kinship system as central point combined with

cultural, linguistic, historical, biographical and geographical information

I. Ideas & Goals


- important speaker information

I. Ideas & Goals



- not for community work

I. Ideas & Goals




- scientific explorations and analyses- anthropological surveys- ethnographies

I. Ideas & Goals





- women’s points of view

I. Ideas & Goals





- women’s points of view

- linguistic research- linguistic variation- kinship terms

I. Ideas & Goals

Kinship behaviour does not have to be isomorphicwith the terminological structure:

- cultural conceptualisations of human reproduction

- kin systems are subject to time and other external factors

II. Beaver Kinship System

Living conditions correlate with kinship and social system



consequences:

- flexible organization



consequences:


- local group size



consequences:


- local group size

- exogamy alternatives


Dravidian Kinship Type

- four semantic dimensions:

sex relative agegeneration crossness


Dravidian Kinship Type

- four semantic dimensions:

sex relative agegeneration crossness

- crossness category

ego generation & adjacent ones (+1/-1 generations)

distinction parallel & cross relatives



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FBS = II MBS = X

Marriage Patterns

Crossness defined by a linking cross-sex relative:

FBD = II MBD = X

MBFB

male ego


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Marriage Patterns

Terminology in the Beaver System:

ashteedzeʼ – “y.sister” sageʼ – “cousin / in-

law”

tłasee – “cousin / in-law”

ashidle – “y.brother”


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∞ ∞ ∞

Marriage Patterns

Terminology in the English System:

cousin cousin

cousincousin


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Marriage Patterns

Ideal constellation:

- preference for bilateral cross cousin marriage

sibling pairs


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Marriage Patterns



- system not corresponding to actual relatives

- concepts of “cross (marriageable)” vs. “parallel” relative


∞ ∞

Marriage Patterns



- system not corresponding to actual relatives

- concepts of “cross (marriageable)” vs. “parallel” relative

- classificatory vs. descriptive terms

1. Toolbox Template for LEXUS

III. ViCoS Workflow


III. ViCoS Workflow

\lx speaker name\lname last name\mname maiden name\sex sex\bd birthday\lg languages\fra from area


III. ViCoS Workflow

possible fields:

\cd code\lingpal linguistics / palatalization\lingvar linguistics / variation\lingmisc linguistics / miscellaneous...


III. ViCoS Workflow

\esib elder sibling\ysib younger sibling

\1ch first child\2ch second child\3ch third child...

III. ViCoS Workflow2. Starting Point in ViCoS

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3. Relation Types Manager

III. ViCoS Workflow

III. ViCoS Workflow3. Relation Types Manager

Relations needed for representing kinship systems:

I. symmetric relationA related to B and B related to A in the same waye.g. spouses (/ siblings)

II. functional relationfor each A there is a single B in its rangee.g. mother of / father of


III. ViCoS Workflow5. Editor & Navigator

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spouse speaker

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III. ViCoS Workflow5. Editor & Navigator: Variation Patterns

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general:

- automatically created relations (using toolbox file)

- automatically generated relations (e.g. transitive relation)

- re-import into toolbox

- off line version

- export function (e.g. .jpg)

- display of more than one focused entry

- use other data categories as main / visible category

- partitioned pop-up windows

- staggered lines for multiple relations between two entries

IV. ViCoS Wishlist

specific:

- symbols for female / male (circle / triangle)

- additional coloured symbols (e.g. for variation patterns)

- automatically generated kinship relations,e.g. cross cousin relation (MBS / MBD / FZS / FZD)

- links to archive(based on speaker, link to e.g. biographical stories)

- show only subset of relations(e.g. only palatalization patterns)

- use other data categories (e.g. code)as main / visible category

- partitioned pop-up windows, also for relations

IV. ViCoS Wishlist

III. ViCoS Workflow

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5. Editor & Navigator: Variation Patterns

III. ViCoS Workflow5. Editor & Navigator: Variation Patterns

vicos and ‘non-linguistic’ relations: visualizing kinship systems

Documents

beaver kinship systemii

beaver kinship systemfbs

beaver system

ideas goalswhy deal

social systemconsequences

important speaker informationi

ideas goalsii

social systemii