[Xmca-l] Re: kinship

[Wolff-Michael Roth]

but plants form families, too

the familiar is linked to family apparently in languages that have adopted
the term from Latin, but not languages as Polish or Russian

Michael


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On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 2:49 PM, Martin Packer <mpacker@cantab.net> wrote:

> So James,
>
> Could a childless couple in China be called a family?
>
> Or would they need to have a pig?  :)
>
> To all: In English we don’t call a childless couple a family, do we?
>
> Martin
>
> "I may say that whenever I meet Mrs. Seligman or Dr. Lowie or discuss
> matters with Radcliffe-Brown or Kroeber, I become at once aware that my
> partner does not understand anything in the matter, and I end usually with
> the feeling that this also applies to myself” (Malinowski, 1930)
>
>
>
> > On Jan 7, 2018, at 5:45 PM, James Ma <jamesma320@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Just to add an etymological aspect that you might be interested to know
> > (this is because Chines is logographical).
> >
> > According to the Chinese Oracle, family 家 has two parts: the upper
> > part 宀 refers
> > to "room"; the lower part 豕 refers to "pig". In the ancient times, people
> > raised pigs in their houses, so having pigs in a house was a hallmark of
> > living. In modern Chinese, family also indicates "relationship", e.g.
> 亲如一家
> > as close as a family.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> > *_____________________________________*
> >
> > *James Ma*  *https://oxford.academia.edu/JamesMa
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> >
> >
> > On 7 January 2018 at 21:30, David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In Chinese and in Korean, the word "family" is related to housing rather
> >> than to kinship. In European languages it is the other way around. This
> >> does suggest something semantic, no?
> >>
> >> David Kellogg
> >>
> >> Recent Article in *Mind, Culture, and Activity* 24 (4) 'Metaphoric,
> >> Metonymic, Eclectic, or Dialectic? A Commentary on “Neoformation: A
> >> Dialectical Approach to Developmental Change”'
> >>
> >> Free e-print available (for a short time only) at
> >>
> >> http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YAWPBtmPM8knMCNg6sS6/full
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 6:22 AM, Greg Thompson <
> greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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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> >>
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