Publications and Papers

David B. Kronenfeld

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Books

Book

In Preparation.  Fanti Kinship (working title).  Under contract with largely completed manuscript.  Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press

1996 Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition. (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics), Oxford University Press (New York).

Edited Books

Gould, Sydney H.
        2000 A New System for the Formal Analysis of Kinship.  Edited, Annotated, and with an Introduction by David B. Kronenfeld.  Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.

Anthropological Theory, Volume 1, Number 2, June 2001.  Special Issue: Kinship, Guest Editor: David B. Kronenfeld.

Articles and Chapters

Invited  “Language, Cognition and Thought.”   For the forthcoming Inaugural Edition of the EOLSS, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. [ UNESCO Internet-based archive (equivalent to about 200 standard print volumes), see http://www.eolss.net  Click here ]

In Press a    “Cognitive Research Methods”.  For the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Social Measurement.  Edited by Kimberly Kempf-Leonard.  Academic Press.  (33 ms. pages)

In Press b    “Structural Models in Anthropology.”  For the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Social Measurement.  Edited by Kimberly Kempf-Leonard.  Academic Press. (21 ms. pages)

In Press c  An Agent-Based Approach to Cultural (and Linguistic) Change.  To appear in Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal.  (19 ms. pages)

2004a   Culture, Cultural Models, and the Division of Labor. In Cybernetics and Systems 2004, Vol. 1, R. Trappl, ed., Vienna: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, pp. 265-270

2004b   Definitions of Cross vs. Parallel:  Implications for a New Typology; (An Appreciation of A. Kimball Romney).  Cross-Cultural Research The Journal of Comparative Social Science 38: 249-269.

2003a   The Inevitability of Folk Etymology: A Case of Collective Reality and Invisible Hands.  Journal of Pragmatics 35:119-138.   (With Gabriella Rundblad)

2001a   Introduction: The Uses of Formal Analysis re Cognitive and Social Issues.  Anthropological Theory 1:147-172.  (Special Issue: Kinship, guest edited by David B. Kronenfeld)

2001b  Using Sydney H. Gould's Formalization of Kin Terminologies:  Social Information, Skewing, and Structural Types.  Anthropological Theory 1:173-196.  (Special Issue: Kinship, guest edited by David B. Kronenfeld)

2001c    Morgan, Trautmann and Barnes, and the Iroquois-Type Cross/Parallel Distinction.  Anthropos 96:423-432.

2000a  Folk-Ethmology: Haphazard Perversion or Shrewd Analogy ?  Co-authored with Gabriella Rundblad.  In Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected Papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998, edited by Julie Coleman and Christian J. Kay, pp. 19-34.

2000b Language and Thought: Collective Tools for Individual Use. In Explorations in Linguistic Relativity, edited by Martin Pütz and Marjolijn H. Verspoor, pp. 197-223. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2000c Meaning in the Lexicon. Co-authored with Gabriella Rundblad. Meaning in the Lexicon. In Meaning Change - Meaning Variation. Volume I. Arbeitspapier (Working Paper) Nr. 106 Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Konstanz Regine Eckardt and Klaus von Heusinger, editors, pp. 161-170.

2000d  Editor's Introduction.  In Gould, Sydney H., A New System for the Formal Analysis of Kinship. Edited, Annotated, and with an Introduction by David B. Kronenfeld.  Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.  Pp. xxix-xl.

1999 Cultural Encounters. Review article on The Quest for the Other: Ethnic Tourism in San Cristobal, Mexico (Pierre L. Van den Berghe) and Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors (Frances Karttunen). To appear in Reviews in Anthropology.

1998 Stranger Communities and "Sweetheart Dances". Anthropos 93:77-88.

1996 Encyclopedia Entries on "Componential Analysis" (Pp. 224-228, Vol. 1) and "Kinship Terminology (Pp. 682-686, Vol. 2) in Encyclopedia Of Cultural Anthropology, edited by David Levinson and Melvin Ember, sponsored by the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University. Published for The American Reference Publishing Company Inc. by Henry Holt and Company, New York.

1994 Language, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and 1989. Language in Society 23:555-578. (Co-authored with Michal Buchowski, Will Peterman, and Lynn Thomas)

1993 Starlings and Other Critters: Simulating Society. (Co-authored with Andrea Kaus) Journal Of Quantitative Anthropology 4:143-174..

1992 Goodenough vs. Fischer on Residence: a Generation Later. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology 4:1-21.

1991 Fanti Kinship: Language, Inheritance, and Kingroups. Anthropos 86:19-31.

1989 Morgan vs. Dorsey on the Omaha Cross-Parallel Contrast: Theoretical Implications. l'Homme, 19:78-101.

1989 Anthropological Research. CAM (Cultural Anthropology Methods) Newsletter 1:1:8, May 1989.

1986 Graph Theory's Uses in Formalizing Anthropological Theories. Reviews in Anthropology 13:3:176-183.

1985 Exploring the Internal Structure of Linguistic Categories: An Extensionist Semantic View. Co-authored with James D. Armstrong and Stan Wilmoth, pp. 21-110. In Directions in Cognitive Anthropology, edited by Janet W.D. Dougherty. Urbana and Chicago: University. of Illinois Press. Reprinted as "Badanie struktury wewnetrznej kategorii jezkowych z punktu widzenia semantyki ekstensjonalnej" (trans. by W. Kubinski) in Amerykanska Antropologia Kognitywna, ed. by Michal Buchowski; Warszawa: Instytutu Kultury (1993), pp. 189-212.

1985 Numerical Taxonomy: Old Techniques and New Assumptions. Current Anthropology, 26:1:21-41.

1984 Computer-Assisted Anthropology. With L. Sailer, et al. Practicing Anthropology, 6:2:5-17.

1984 The Problem of Informant Accuracy: the Validity of Retrospective Data. Co-authored with H.R. Bernard, P. Killworth, and L. Sailer, Annual Review of Anthropology 13:495-517.

1983 Revised Lexicostatistical Classification of Salishan Languages (Co-authored with Lynn L. Thomas). American Anthropologist. 85:372-378.

1981 Mathematical Socio-Cultural Anthropology. American Anthropologist 83:422-450.

1981 Toward a Convergence of Cognitive and Symbolic Anthropology. Co-authored with B.N. Colby and F.W. Fernandez, American Ethnologist. 85:372-378.

1980 Particularistic or Universalistic Analysis of Fanti Kinterminology: the Alternative Goals of Terminological Analysis. Man, 15:1:151-169.

1980 A Formal Analysis of Fanti Kinship Terminology. Anthropos, 75:586-608.

1979 Innate Language ?. Language Sciences 1:209-239.

1979 Structuralism. (with Henry Decker) Annual Review of Anthropology 8:503-541.

1976 Asdiwal Crumbles: A Critique of Levi-Straussian Myth Analysis (Co-authored with Lynn L. Thomas and Judy Z. Kronenfeld). American Ethnologist, 3:1:147-173. To be reprinted in articles on the Theory of Myth, ed. Robert Segal; Hamden, Connecticut: Garland Publishing Co.

1976 Computer Analysis of Skewed Kinship Terminologies. Language 52:4:891-917.

1975 Pomo Lineages: `And Why Not?', A Response to Kunkel. The Journal of California Anthropology 2:120-123.

1975 Kroeber vs. Radcliffe-Brown on Kinship Behavior: The Fanti Test Case. Man 10:257-284.

1974 Sibling Typology: Beyond Nerlove and Romney. American Ethnologist 1:489-506.

1974 Numerical Taxonomy and the Classification of Salish Indian Languages (Co-authored with Lynn Thomas). In Procedings of the IXth International Conference on Salishan Languages. August 12, 14, 1974, pp. 119-162.

1974 Fanti (Co-authored with Judy Z. Kronenfeld). In Family of Man, 3:31:843-845. London: Marshall Cavendish Ltd.

1973 Fanti Kinship: The Structure of Terminology and Behavior. American Anthropologist 75:1577-1595.

1972 Guttman Scaling: Problems of Conceptual Domain, Unidimensionality and Historical Inference. Man 7:255-276.

1972 The Cognition of Restaurant Interiors (Co-authored with John Kronenfeld and Jerrold E. Kronenfeld). Institutions/Volume Feeding. Vol. 70, no. 11:30-44.

Comments

1996 Comment on Burton et al.: Regions Based on Social Structure. Current Anthropology 37:1:113-114.

1990 Comment on Mauro W. Barbosa de Almeida: Symmetry and Entropy: Mathematical Metaphors in the Work of Lévi-Strauss. Current Anthropology Vol. 31:4:379-380.

1984 Comment on Read: An Algebraic Account of the American Kinship Terminology. Current Anthropology 25:442-443.

1980 Comment on Maruyama: Mindscapes and Science Theories. Current Anthropology, 21:5:602-603.

1979 Comment on El Guindi and Read: Mathematics in Structural Theory. Current Anthropology, 20:4:779-781.

Reviews

1996 Review of Duchan, Bruder, and Hewitt (eds.): Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective. Anthropological Linguistics 38:735-736.

1989 Review of Stefflre: Developing and Implementing Marketing Strategies. American Anthropologist 91:1046-1047.

1988 Review of Langacker: Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, Volume 1: Theoretical Perspectives and of Lakoff: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind. American Anthropologist 90:431-433.

1983 Review of Renner: Die Kognitive Anthropologies: Aufbau und Grundlagen Eines Ethnologisch-Linguistischen Paradigmas (co-authored with Ada Schmidt). American Anthropologist 85:735-736.

1983 Review of Hooper: Why Tikopia Has Four Clans. Man 17:793-794.

1979 Review of Roberts: Law and the Family in Africa. American Anthropologist 81:408.

1978 Review of Schank and Abelson: Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry into Human Knowledge Structures. Language 54:779.

1977 Review of Harre: Live Sentences: Aspects of the Social Role of Language. Language 53:971-972.

1976 Review of Ballonoff: Mathematical Models of Social and Cognitive Structures. American Anthropologist 78:391-392.

1972 Review of Bartholomew and Bassett: Let's Look at the Numbers. Man 7:183.

1970 Review of Buchler and Nutini, eds., eds.,: Game Theory in the Behavioral Sciences. American Anthropologist 72:1469-1471.

Unpublished Papers, all by David B. Kronenfeld unless otherwise noted

1994 Culture as Distributed Cognition. American Anthropological Association, Annual Meetings, Atlanta, Nov. 1994.   What insights concening the way in which culture might work (be created, transmitted, changed--and vary from individual to individual)) and the usefulness or function (what it does for us and how we use it) of culture are suggested by treating culture as a system of distributed cognition.

1995 Ethnicity and Society. Paper presented at Department of Anthropology, UCR. Revised vesion of talks given during May 1994 at the University of Oslo (Norway) and Adam Mickiewicz University (Posnan, Poland).   A follow-up to my book: starting with the semantics of ethnicity and ethnic labels, traversing a brief consideration of Norway's Sami (Lapps) that parallels my Blackfeet treatment, and then a consideration of the social units that a) are labelled by the ethnic labels and b) constitute the speech communities within/by which the ethnic labels are defined.  This was the first tentative exploration of what developed into my particular claims about how culture and society are mutually constitutive.  ca. 40 plus ms pages.

1995 Kinship: Formal Analysis and Cognition. Paper in Symposium on Kinship and Kinship theory: a Vibrant Future or Just a Healthy Past ?. American Anthropological Association 94th Annual Meeting, Nov. 15-19, 1995, Washington, DC.

1996 The Social Construction Of Ethnicity: Intuition, Authenticity, Authenticators. Paper presented in the Symposium on Culture as Distributed Cognition. American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, 20 November 1996, San Francisco, California.  This is a more extended treatment of Norway's Sami (and of US Jews) regarding how it becomes decided who is more or less "authentic"--how the politics and economics work re the semantics and re group membership.  ca. 20 pages.

1997 Durkheimian Collective Representations: a Distributed Cognition Perspective. Paper presented at "Vive Durkheim !": An Interdisciplinary Conference on Emile Durkheim and Religion. UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, 2 May 1997.    Sort of the obvious: my argument as to why I think that my views of culture/society as a system of parallel distributed cognition, etc. is really what Durkheim had in mind--and would have spelled out if only he had had our modern vocabulary and conceptual resources (!!--what the hell--why not ?!)

1998  Formal Rules, Cognitive Representations, and Learning in Language and Other Cultural Systems.  Paper presented in the Symposium on Cognitive Anthropology and Formal Linguistic Models: Their Uses and Their Limitations.  American Anthropological Annual Meetings, November 1998.  Why formal rules (a la Chomsky's grammar or various anthropological characterizations of kinship terminological structures) even if/when highly accurate as technical descriptions do NOT represent any necessary theory (or direct description) of the cognitive operations that produced the regularities being described.