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Teknonymy and geononymy in Korean kinship terminologyarticle 1973 • Yi, Kwang-gyu & Harvey, Youngsook Kim
Korea • Asia > East Asia
In this article, Lee and Harvey describe the Korean kinship terminology with a focus on the widely-practiced custom of teknonymy and geononymy. Korean kinship terms are based on relative age, sex, generation, and degree of relatedness. The practice o...