Kinship Contents Kinship&Genealogy Kinship Introduction Learning Kinship with the Kinship Editor Use the Kinship Editor Kinship Editor Results Calculating Kin Culture &Classification Modelling Kinship Computers and Kinship Conceptual requirements Specification Programming Kin Introduction Rules Trying things out Basic kin types Extended kin types Genealogical relations Terminologial rules Resources Prolog Reference Bibliography Top of page Kinship Contents Top of page Kinship Contents

Basic Kin Types Anthropologists typically use a basic vocabulary of kin types to represent genealogical relationships. One common version of the vocabulary for basic relationships are: Kin Type English Gloss P Parent F Father M Mother C Child D Daughter S Son G Sibling Z Sister B Brother E Spouse H Husband W Wife Following is a prolog example which defines p,f,m,c,s,d. Try some of these out, by typing in a query (to the right of the "Query" button) replacing the 'm(X,Y).' that is there, and then clicking either on the 'All Solutions' button or the 'Query' button (this gives you one result for each time you click the button). As an exercise, complete and test the definitions for g,z,b,e,h,w. You can test your definitions by typing in a query (to the right of the "Query" button) replacing the 'm(X,Y).' that is there. When writing your rules pay attention to two things: 1) make sure where you intend a variable for prolog to 'fill-in' with a name, that you use an upper-case letter for the variable name (A-Z), and 2) end your rule with a full-stop ('.'). This is VERY important. If you get things into too big a mess, you can reload the page by clicking on the reload button of the browser while holding down the option key on a Macintosh, or the ALT key under Windows or Unix. The correct answers are incorporated into the program in next section. In the next section, all 12 basic kin type rules are included in the prolog program in the bottom window. Next section: Extended kin types