excd.lab

We're a group of interdisciplinary researchers, led by @fiona_jordan, who explore the evolution of cross-cultural diversity.

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This lab account is dormant for now. Please check https://t.co/ViTmg12esV for updates.

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Fiona's Viking plants paper is now out! 👏 You also have a couple of opportunities to hear her talk on it 🌿

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Today's @excd_lab journal club discussed patterns of spice use. Leading on from Billings & Sherman 1998 infection-mitigation mechanism paper, this study suggests a broader association between spice, health, and poverty. https://t.co/2p6zkN9r32

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Lab members @SamPassmore_ and @HonkolaTerhi are presenting @ehbea2021 in the Kinship, Reproduction & Life History session 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM GMT+1. Both will be presenting work from the VariKin project https://t.co/W3aPjVGNp7 & @fiona_jordan answering Qs for Sam.

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Last week's @excd_lab Journal Club paper intro'd by evolutionary anthropologist @Janetahoward_ Is individual adherence to Covid social distancing rules influenced by perceived behaviour of our social circles? Answer: yes!
https://t.co/4juneAKu3h

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Prof Mhairi Gibson led Journal Club 2021 today with an exploration of 'Gendered Fitness Interests'(GFI) and how gender, kin types, reproduction cycles and paternity uncertainty may lead to variations in GFI, affecting socio-political attitudes.
https://t.co/9IK0xq8YlO

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Men, however, were recorded to use “nejō” (“my child”) to refer only to those in the first descending generation who they are *not* related to. Those they are related to are referred to as “mangorō”, “my sister’s child”.

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Marshallese-speaking women from Bikini were recorded to only use one term to refer to anyone in the "first descending generation": the kinship specialist's technical term for children's generation.

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This term is “nejō”, meaning “my child”, and would be used for a woman's children as well as nieces, nephews, and even non-kin from the younger generation.

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“Syzygos”, the Greek word for “spouse”, comes from the root “zygos” which is the part of the plough used to keep the two animals dragging the plough together.

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As Jo is currently working on her Grandparent Naming project, today we took a closer look at the Grandmother Hypothesis. Kristen Hawkes' study into grandmothering, covers evolution, behaviour, ecology & cognition. Lots of interesting discussion! https://t.co/nrIYfCrZ1Y

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For more on Kogi kinship, see Halbmayer, 2020.

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Kogi, (or Cogui) speakers in Colombia use the term "dwe" to refer to an elder brother which directly translates to mean "mister". Elder sisters are addressed as “nu” meaning “lady”.

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Kogi speakers also equate their parents' siblings with their own elder brother and sisters. This means they refer to their aunts and uncles using these terms as well.

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Our latest blog post presents @sheardcat
@fiona_jordan @anggarrgoon and @thai101 paper re how Pama-Nyungan grandparent naming systems change. Find the post here: https://t.co/soI8EEdFsd

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This week we review an exciting forthcoming manuscript from @excd_lab team members, @HonkolaTerhi and @fiona_jordan which looks at borrowings in kin terms. Terhi's research project involved studying 50 kinship categories from 32 languages in the World Loanword Database (WOLD).

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For more information on Ngarinyin kinship terminoligy, see Rumsey, 1981: https://t.co/fi9RBP0j9i

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Ngarinyin speakers in Australia have only 1 kin term to refer to every relative in the paternal lineage.

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This is particularly unusual for an Australian language as Australian languages usually have a large number of kinship terms and paternal lines are often split through the use of kin terms into sets of generational groups.