Bi-subject kinship verification addresses the problem of verifying whether there exists some kind of kin relationship (i.e., father–son, father-daughter, mother–son and mother–daughter) between a pair of parent–child subjects based purely on their visual appearance. The task is challenging due to the involvement of two different subjects possibly with different genders and ages. In addition, co...

OBJECTIVES Marriages among kin have the dual effect of both increasing average group relatedness as well as reducing the total number of kin by eliminating more genealogically and geographically distant individuals from kinship networks. Marriage decisions therefore face a tradeoff between density of kin, or formation of intensive kinship systems, and the diversity of kin, or extensive kinship ...

This paper is concerned with the acquisition of structures involving Proper Names (PN) and Kinship Terms (KT). Building on ideas from Radford (1990) and Pine & Martindale (1996), and based on data on the acquisition of structures involving PNs and KTs in Modern Greek (MG), I will argue that the acquisition of the functional projection DP does not take place in an all or nothing fashion, but rat...

Batak and Minangkabau are the two big tribes in Indonesia. It is not wrong to say that Bataks cultured. In theory, humans cultured creatures. Culture static, impermanent flexible. This flexibility can be seen process of mixing between or more cultures. When cultures at same time place, culture becomes inevitable. Just like a melting pot salad bowl America. perspective sociology anthropology ref...