Ines Valdera
Ines writes about kinship terminologies and marriage systems. She studied social anthropology, reads ethnographies in Spanish and Portuguese, and believes most arguments about kinship end once someone draws a clear diagram.
Explainers by Ines
Section systems, and how the Kariera and Aranda rules work
How four-section (Kariera) and eight-subsection (Aranda) systems work: marriage and descent rules worked by hand, abstract labels, and what the model leaves out.
Cross and parallel cousins, and why the difference matters
Cross and parallel cousins explained: the linking-sibling test, why Iroquois and Dravidian terms split them, and what cross-cousin marriage does to alliances.
The six classic kinship systems on one family tree
Inuit, Hawaiian, Sudanese, Iroquois, Crow and Omaha terms on one family tree: who gets called what, what each merges, and where the labels came from.