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The VARIKIN project examines the diversity of kinship classifications across cultures, investigating how these classifications evolve and are used in social contexts. It combines cultural evolutionary theory with linguistic and developmental studies.
Why do human societies differ in whom they class as family?
Why are cousins classed with siblings in some societies but not others?
Accounting for the variable ways that cultures classify kin is an enduring puzzle.
The VARIKIN project takes a cultural evolutionary approach to variety and unity and engages different fields–cultural phylogenetics, corpus linguistics, and cross-cultural child development. VARIKIN-Evolution asks how and why does kinship diversity evolve across cultures and over time…
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