Representing Anthropological Knowledge: Calculating Kinship
Michael D. Fischer
Analyzing and Understanding Cultural Codes

Kinship
Contents

Kinship&Genealogy
Kinship Introduction
Learning Kinship with
the Kinship Editor
Use the Kinship Editor
Kinship Editor Results
Passive Media: Text

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Passive Media: Text - a representation useful to people

Following is a transformation of the information produced by the Kinship Editor to a collated textual form similar to what a anthropologist might normally produce for reference.

This example was done using a program we developed to transform XML documents into other formats. This program used the rather forbidding looking script that follows to transform the Sample Output document into the text document further down this page.

The next section is: Active Media: Prolog


The transformation script.


% <text generated="XSLSim copyright 1999 Michael D Fischer">
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Name: John
Sex: Male
Born: 1910
Died: 1998
Comment: None
Parents:
Siblings:
Partners:
Noddie (1948-1996) Children:


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Name: George
Sex: Male
Born: 1926
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: Noddie Earl
Siblings: Jim
Partners:
Jean (1951-NA) Children: Mike Jimmi Nancy


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Name: Mike
Sex: Male
Born: 1951
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: George Jean
Siblings: Jimmi Nancy
Partners:
Wenonah (1981-NA) Children: Stephen Demeter


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Name: Earl
Sex: Male
Born: 1900
Died: 1992
Comment: None
Parents:
Siblings:
Partners:
Noddie (1922-1931) Children: George Jim


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Name: Noddie
Sex: Female
Born: 1900
Died: 1996
Comment: None
Parents:
Siblings:
Partners:
Earl (1922-1931) Children: George Jim
John (1948-1996) Children:


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Name: Jean
Sex: Female
Born: 1931
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: Bill Effie
Siblings: Jo Wayne Arthur
Partners:
George (1951-NA) Children: Mike Jimmi Nancy


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Name: Jimmi
Sex: Female
Born: 1952
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: George Jean
Siblings: Mike Nancy
Partners:
Ron (1992-1999) Children: Marie


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Name: Nancy
Sex: Female
Born: 1957
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: George Jean
Siblings: Mike Jimmi
Partners:


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Name: Jim
Sex: Male
Born: 1928
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: Noddie Earl
Siblings: George
Partners:
Elizibeth (1954-NA) Children: Vikki Richard


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Name: Elizibeth
Sex: Female
Born: 1929
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents:
Siblings:
Partners:
Jim (1954-NA) Children: Vikki Richard


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Name: Vikki
Sex: Female
Born: 1958
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: Jim Elizibeth
Siblings: Richard
Partners:
Paul (1980-NA) Children: Albert


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Name: Richard
Sex: Male
Born: 1960
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: Jim Elizibeth
Siblings: Vikki
Partners:


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Name: Wenonah
Sex: Female
Born: 1942
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents:
Siblings:
Partners:
Mike (1981-NA) Children: Stephen Demeter


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Name: Stephen
Sex: Male
Born: 1966
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: Wenonah Mike
Siblings: Demeter
Partners:
Sonia (1992-NA) Children:


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Name: Demeter
Sex: Female
Born: 1964
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: Wenonah Mike
Siblings: Stephen
Partners:
Albert (1998-NA) Children: Carl


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Name: Paul
Sex: Male
Born: 1957
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents:
Siblings:
Partners:
Vikki (1980-NA) Children: Albert


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Name: Albert
Sex: Male
Born: 1962
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: Vikki Paul
Siblings:
Partners:
Demeter (1998-NA) Children: Carl


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Name: Carl
Sex: Male
Born: 1999
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: Albert Demeter
Siblings:
Partners:


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Name: Effie
Sex: Female
Born: 1900
Died: 1996
Comment: None
Parents:
Siblings:
Partners:
Bill (1926-1957) Children: Jean Jo Wayne Arthur


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Name: Bill
Sex: Male
Born: 1901
Died: 1957
Comment: None
Parents:
Siblings:
Partners:
Effie (1926-1957) Children: Jean Jo Wayne Arthur


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Name: Jo
Sex: Female
Born: 1937
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: Bill Effie
Siblings: Jean Wayne Arthur
Partners:


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Name: Wayne
Sex: Male
Born: 1929
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: Bill Effie
Siblings: Jean Jo Arthur
Partners:


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Name: Arthur
Sex: Male
Born: 1930
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: Bill Effie
Siblings: Jean Jo Wayne
Partners:


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Name: Sonia
Sex: Female
Born: 1968
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents:
Siblings:
Partners:
Stephen (1992-NA) Children:


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Name: Ron
Sex: Male
Born: 1956
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents:
Siblings:
Partners:
Jimmi (1992-1999) Children: Marie


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Name: Marie
Sex: Female
Born: 1992
Died: NA
Comment: None
Parents: Jimmi Ron
Siblings:
Partners:


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% </text>

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