List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
Abbreviations for Kin Types
Introduction
1. Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies ~ Doug Jones and Bojka Milicic
2. Anthropology, Mathematics, and Per Hage's Contribution to Kinship Theory ~ David Jenkins
Part 1. Kinship and Prehistory
3. Back to Proto-Sapiens (Part 1): The Inherited Kinship Terms Papa, Mama, and Kaka ~ Alain Matthey de l'Etang, Pierre Bancel, and Merritt Ruhlen
4. Back to Proto-Sapiens (Part 2): The Global Kinship Terms Papa, Mama and Kaka ~ Pierre Bancel, Alain Matthey de l'Etang, and John D. Bengtson
5. Reconstructing Ancient Kinship: Practice and Theory in an African Case Study ~ Christopher Ehret
6. Proto-Bantu Descent Groups ~ Per Hage and Jeff Marck
7. Kin Terms in the East Bantu Protolanguages: Initial Findings ~ Jeff Mark, Per Hage, Koen Bostoen, and Jean-Georges Kamba Muzenga
8. Proto-Oceanic Society (Austronesian) and Proto-East Bantu Society (Niger-Congo) Residence, Descent, and Kin Terms, ca. 1000 BC ~ Jeff Mark and Koen Bostoen
9. Oceanic Cousin Terms and Marriage Alliance ~ Per Hage
10. The Transition from Kariera to an Asymmetrical System: Cape York Peninsula to North-East Arnhemland ~ Patrick McConvell and Ian Keen
11. Proto-Central Amerind *Pa: "Father's Sister"="Mother-in-Law" ~ Per Hage
Part II. Kinship, Language, and Mind
12. What is Malay Kinship Primarily About? Or, the New Kinship Studies and the Fabrication of Ethnographic Fantasy ~ Warren Shapiro
13. The Logic and Structure of Kinship Terminologies: Implications for Theory and Historical Reconstructions ~ Dwight Read
14. Salience of Verticality and Horizontality in American and Tongan Kinship Terminologies ~ Giovanni Bennardo and Dwight Read
15. Marking and Language Change ~ David Kronenfeld
16. Grammars of Kinship and Color: Cognitive Universals and Optimal Communication ~ Doug Jones
17. Is There a Kinship Module?: Evidence from Children's Acquisition of Kinship Terms in Pitumarca, Peru ~ Bojka Milicic
References
List of Contributors
Index