Abstract
Traditional anthropological models of kinship employ rule-based classical semantics to account for the meanings of kinship, clanship and the attribution of kin terms. This article uses cognitively-based, prototype semantics and distributed, sub-symbolic representations to explore the meanings of kinship relations among the Managalase of Papua New Guinea.
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