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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 เม.ย. 2018
- Not every language talks about family the same way. Why did Latin have so many words for "cousin"? When does "brother" also mean "sister" in Hawaiian? How did Ashanti kin terms thwart British colonizers? An animated exploration of kinship around the world!
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~ Corrections ~
One messenger warns that the "Inuit" system does not actually reflect Inuit languages. For more information and multiple sources on this issue, see my sources doc link below.
~ Briefly ~ (small spoilers!)
We'll take a tour through the traditional breakdown of kin terms around the world into just six systems: Inuit, Hawaiian, Sudanese, Iroquois, Crow and Omaha. Along the way we'll see how each works using my animated family tree diagram full of faces. We'll also meet some truly unique examples of kinship systems, including spending a bit more time with siblings in Hawaiian language itself and a detour to the Asantehene's kingdom to show off how Crow systems work. Wait, but that's just six systems, right? There's one more, a system that looks like Iroquois until we zoom out and meet your grandparents' siblings' descendants.
You'll end up with a dizzying but amazing sense for how linguistic kinship systems have been classified in the past. Before you go though, I'll ask a few questions that poke at these systems, challenge the assumptions we make in this video and have been hard for me to answer.
~ Credits ~
Art, animation, narration and some of the music by Josh from NativLang
Doc full of sources for claims made and images, music, sfx, fonts used:
docs.google.com/document/d/1u...
Music that's not by me:
Crazy Glue, Tickled Pink
Josh Woodward - joshwoodward.com/
Thatched Villagers, Thinking Music, The Path of the Goblin King v2, Silver Flame, Arid Foothills, Vadodora Chill Mix, Sardana
Kevin MacLeod - www.incompetech.com
Happy Ukulele, Sneaky Snooper
Jason Shaw - audionautix.com
Dragons and Fireworks
Darren Curtis - www.darrencurtismusic.com
Chinese speaker here. I have a kinship tree saved on my phone so I know who's who in family gatherings.
‘Second cousin twice removed’ is already speaking a foreign language as far as I’m concerned.
Being a Chinese, I remember distinctively when I was a kid, during every Chinese New Year while visiting extended family members I always had to rely on my mum to tell me exactly what to call each family member before entering their homes. The worst is during family reunions when extended family members show up unexpectedly I always panicked and ran to my mum to ask how I should address those people before I can greet them. lol. To this date I still cannot figure it out, and I'm 30.
In Swedish we’ve got separate words for almost all our close family members.
Older woman = Mom
Indigenous Australians have unique words for up to the 10th cousin and 16 first and last names that decided who you could marry it worked for like 40,000 years to prevent inbreeding please do a video on it
In Swedish we have differentiating words for our grandparents; we, call them mothermother, motherfather, fathermother and fatherfather.
Hello! I did my PhD on Asante kinship, specifically on inheritance. You've got it right-ish, but some key stuff is off.
So this is why human evolution ABSOLUTELY NEEDED a huge brain... To figure out who can bone who
“I am your father’s, brother’s, nephew’s, cousin’s former roommate.”
-Being a Chinese
Darth Vader: I am your father.
Wow that was seriously confusing.
These are some of the cutest circles and squares I've ever seen, they are utterly adorable.
“I don’t want to sell you a rug to pull it out from under you.”
"your mother's sister is not your father's sister"
I am from South India and we follow the Dravidian kinship system. Marrying cousins has gone out of practice in most cities these days although we retain the terms. We also have the older/younger sibling differences and the terms for maternal aunts and uncles are different from paternal aunts and uncles. So it's actually more complicated than what is shown in this video. That's why when we learn the English kinship terms in school, our teachers would tell us that English is very vague and ambiguous about relationships.
I swear to god it sounds like your own script confused you
Omg he was talking about the Iroquois system and I was like, THAT'S IT! ... and then he brought up South India! The whole point of the Dravidian system is to make sure u don't end up marrying the love-child of a parent's affair
As the proud owner of a degree in anthropology one of my favourite party tricks is explaining cross and parallel cousins to drunk people then making them workout who'd they'd marry if they lived in that culture. 10/20 would recommend to a friend