[Xmca-l] Re: kinship

[Greg Thompson]

Martin,
Well that is a difficult question to answer without knowing what you mean
by "family"?
What in the world do you mean by "family"?
-greg

On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Martin Packer <mpacker@cantab.net> wrote:

> I am struggling with the way ‘family’ and ‘kinship’ have been defined, or
> not defined, in psychology and anthropology. One question that has occurred
> to me is whether a word equivalent to ‘family’ exists in every language.
> When I Google this, Google responds ‘Ask Siri’…  :(
>
> Anyone have an idea?
>
> Martin
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