Matthew Daniel Eddy *, How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity, Osiris, Vol. 29, No. 1, Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World (January 2014), pp. 178-196 ...

A substantial part of the study of kinship after Rivers involved visualizing relationships in systematic, comparable form. For anthropologists, the genealogical diagram is a piece of graphic shorthand ...