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The suffix –ba in Basque kinship terminology

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Posted on 2018-12-14 in
Women from Zeanuri (Bizkaia). Felipe Manterola Collection

Women from Zeanuri (Bizkaia). Felipe Manterola Collection. Labayru Fundazioa Photographic Archive.

Kinship terminologies are a recurrent subject of study for anthropologists. Authors such as Morgan have interpreted some of them as linguistic residues of former kinship systems.

Vinson, Aranzadi and Caro Baroja drew attention to the particularities of the Basque system of names applied to categories of kin, specifically the differentiation by gender of ego and ego’s brothers and sisters, suggesting the purpose of such a differentiation could have been to mark kinship with female members by means of the suffix –ba. (more…)

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