Manger la parole de Dieu. La Bible lue par les Wari’ by Aparecida Vilaça

“…The comparison of God’s Words with food equates reading or hearing them with other native ways of producing kinship. This process is reinforced by the moral contents of the Holy Words, as well as by their ontological premises, since the clear-cut distinction between human and non-human animals helps to ratify the Wari’s human status.…”
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Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving by Paolo Fortis

“…Explored through art the theme of alterity, both at the level of the person and the cosmological world, provides a framework to look at ideas of birth and death, and the centrality of kinship in the creation of human bodies.…”
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A estrutura sacrificial do compadrio: uma ontologia da desigualdade? by Marcos Lanna

“…It is shown that god-parenthood is not only a religious or kinship institution and that it does not reinforce inequalities that supposedly pre-exist it, but rather it is a structure that generates inequalities. …”
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Identifying [between] Geser and Genghis Khan. Part 1: Contamination of Images in Folklore and Historical Memories of Central and Inner Asia by Natalia N. Nikolaeva, Evgenii V. Nolev

“…The article aims to identify, classify and explore plots that tend to identify, articulate kinship and typological proximity of Geser and Genghis Khan in folklore and historical memories of Inner Asian peoples. …”
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A categoria raça nas Ciências Sociais: revisitando alguns processos políticos, sociais e culturais na história do Brasil by José Ivo Follmann, Adevanir Aparecida Pinheiro

“…Departing from a reference to three mechanisms, such as the "ritual" of the forgetting tree, the imposture of a new official religion and the disaggregation of blood kinship and ethnic identities, the article emphasizes, as central argument, that the usage of racist theory, as justification, and the effort of the Brazilian State in the way of whiteness's policy, which is a characteristic of Brazilian history, were strongly determinant. …”
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Chronicler's women - a holistic appraisal by F. Olojede

“…A relentless focus on kinship and familial ties is discernible in the analysis of the roles and positions of the women who are presented in a way that shows their affinities to the people (or land) of Israel. …”
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O multiverso predatório dos deuses canibais: o legado de Joanna Overing by Els Lagrou, Luisa Elvira Belaunde

“…As the only woman in the anthropology department at the London School of Economics for much of the eighties, she faced pioneering controversies about kinship, gender, rationality, temporality, aesthetics and creativity with elegant, clear and theoretically dense writing, making room for women in academia. …”
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Viabilità relazionale: una prospettiva im/mobile delle relazioni nel Gambia transnazionale by Paolo Gaibazzi

“…Firstly, viability hints at the infrastructural aspects, such as when Soninke speakers imagine kinship as a road or a network of roads connecting and channelling kinsfolk. …”
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The Political Economy of Village Level Theocracies in the Ìlàjẹ Coastline, Southwest Nigeria by Babajide Ololajulo

“…The main argument of this article, following ethnographic data collected from four theocratic settlements, which are regarded as the core village theocracies, is that a flexible land tenure regime and a loose traditional political system, among other factors of environment and kinship structure, ensured easy access to land and served to authenticate the spiritual leadership claims of founders of theocratic settlements. …”
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Aboriginal cosmotechnics by Simon Sadler

“…So having carefully pieced together the objects, spiri-tuality, camps, shelters, materials and kinship of what Aboriginal design was (and is, in isolated ways), the book posits something more synthetic – an ‘offering’, as its conclusion graciously puts it, in which ‘this new Australian design will improve the wellbeing of people and create places that ultimately mean more to all of us. …”
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Heraldry and entailment identity in pre-modern Portugal by Rita Nóvoa

“…Entails were legal institutions that framed kinship and organized heritage transmission. They were also creators of identity, here defined as “entailment identity”. …”
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Tuo Dolphins by Rolf Erik Scott, Peter Ian Crawford

“…The people of Tuo have a mythical relationship with dolphins, covered by a traditional so-called kastom story, the incident confirming the fascinating relationship between the dolphins landing on the beach and the kinship relationships. The phenomenon had allegedly been triggered when a member of a specific family line, Pelewe, passed away a few weeks before. …”
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Trajectoire mémorielle entre continuités et ruptures : l'exemple de la communauté grecque à Marseille au XIXe siècle by Michel Calapodis

“…On the one hand the archontal Generation (1825-1875) incorporated the long-term representations of the group (socio-historically determined legacies such as religion, language, kinship, and self-administration policy) into its main identification frame, the Community, on the other hand and at the same time, this Generation elaborated its own social model through a selective acquisition of local French values and representations. …”
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The Doubly Librating Plutinos by Renu Malhotra, Takashi Ito

“…Named for orbital kinship with Pluto, the Plutinos are a prominent group of Kuiper Belt objects whose orbital periods are in libration about a 3/2 ratio with Neptune’s. …”
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Essai de recherche d’une typologie de la sainte mystique dans l’islam et le christianisme à partir de l’étude de cas de Rabia Adawiyya by Claude-Brigitte Carcenac

“…Despite their emerging in different periods, Christianity and Islam belong to the same geographical sphere and are of common kinship. The two religions are found to share, moreover, a highly unequal attitude towards women even as their respective messages feature a universal and non-discriminatory character. …”
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Cultural disaster: A threat to the preservation of Minangkabau culture by Oktavianus Oktavianus, Nopriyasman Nopriyasman, Zahid Indirawati

“…The result of the study indicated a potential threat of a cultural disaster in Minangkabau, as indicated by the lack of basic knowledge of the young generation about cultural values in Minangkabau expressions, kinship terms, traditional arts, and culinary. The learning process of Minangkabau cultures can be one of the ways to anticipate the Minangkabau cultural disaster.…”
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The Influence of the Migration of the Governor’s Subjects from Kalmyk Khanate to China on the Kalmyk Settlements of Orenburg Province in 1771 by Stepan V. Dzhundzhuzov

“…They were related to the subjects of the governor of the Kalmyk Khanate by kinship and confessional ties. Under the influence of agitation, coercion, or out of fear of parting with their family, some of the Yaik Kalmyks joined the migration provoked by the Kalmyk nobility. …”
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Dyskryminacja dzieci pozamałżeńskich w ustawodawstwie cywilnym w Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej i próby jej przezwyciężenia w projektach kodyfikacyjnych by Leonard Górnicki

“…He then moves on to the work of overcoming discrimination against extramarital children in the Codification Commission of the Republic of Poland, analyzing the original drafts prepared by Stanisław Gołąb (1934) and the drafts by the Subcommittee of the law on kinship and guardianship relations of the Codification Commission based on them. …”
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Call for Papers: Intergenerational Justice Prize 2020 by FRFG, IF (Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, Intergenerational Foundation)

“…• To what extent do inheritance (and gift) tax systems differ in terms of tax rates and allowances according to degree of kinship in OECD countries or beyond? What percentage of the population is liable to these taxes? …”
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Family history of cardiovascular disease and death in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by Magnus Gylling, Johanna Krøll, Peder Emil Warming, Carolina Malta Hansen, Fredrik Folke, Steen M. Hansen, Lars Køber, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Rodrigue Garcia, Jacob Tfelt-Hansen, Peter E. Weeke

“…Methods: Patients (<70 years) with OHCA’s of presumed cardiac origin and available kinship information were identified from the Danish Cardiac Arrest Register (2001–2014). …”
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