Word: kinship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even imagines that Rodgers and Hammerstein will write her a musical after the war and promises her fellow troupers supporting roles. Though her pulpy fantasies of fame and fortune are ludicrously out of reach, her brave self-confidence wins over her battered G.I. audiences. The soldiers feel a kinship with the dauntless Verna because she, like them, is risking her life for the sake of an innocent American dream...
...believe that man was created in the image of God. If Mr. Leakey and the other anthropologists want to claim kinship with the apes and gorillas and monkeys, that's their pleasure...
Anthropologist Sahlins in The Use and Abuse of Biology, the only anti-sociobiology book published to date, contends that kinship patterns among humans do not?as sociobiological theory predicts?always follow bloodlines. He also argues that Trivers' theory of reciprocal altruism simply does not work: an individual may help himself by behaving altruistically, but he also helps one of his competitors. Thus there is no net advantage to altruistic behavior, and it should be selected against by evolution...
This is the instinctive kinship Israel feels toward America. I experienced it on a personal level in the years I lived in the U.S.A. when serving as my country's ambassador between 1968 and 1973. The overwhelming recollection I have of those years is one of spontaneous reciprocal understanding...
...late '60s, advocates of black pride began to hunt for "useable history"--evidence for a cultural asset in black roots. Gutman's thesis, to be followed by one on black urban life after 1960, furnishes blacks with a sympathetic and un-patronizing, if non-radical model of their heritage. "Kinship ties" and generational memory may go a long way toward explaining how blacks fell together during the early Civil Rights Movements. And "fictive" kin adoption may shed light on why black children in the North still grow up knowing any number of "uncles" and "aunties" who belong to the outer...