and cross-cousin marriage, 6, 185, 211–254, 297–307, 365, 377

and death, 7, 44, 45–47, 69, 131–136, 137nl, 301–304

diagrams, 188–191

and divorce, 131–136

“elementary” vs. “complex” systems of, 126, 169, 298, 367

fictive, 69, 90nl, 126, 134

and genealogy, 80, 116, 135, 163, 303

and language, 151–176

linguistic, 7, 73, 74, 83–89, 90n8, 91, 92, 147–151

and marriagesee also alliance theory, 124, 125

and myth, 135, 137n2

and nation, 70, 71

and politics, 59–61, 65–67, 98

and psychology, 109–114

and relations of production, 125, 126

and religion, 49–57, 61, 62, 132

and slavery, 307n9

and triads, 173, 174

unilinealsee also lineage theory, 104, 106, 299

in Western and non-Western societies, 123

kinship studies and archaeology, 140

Australian, 121

crisis in, 121–127

and human origins and dispersals, 139–144

and linguistics, 103–109, 140

Marxist, 126, 304

as myth, 120, 121

and philosophy, 137n3

and relativismsee also Schneider, David M., 181n30

Russian-Soviet, 101–103, 121, 250nl

South American, 123

United States, 121

kin terms; see kin terminologies

kin terminologies (kin terms), 14, 20, 32, 33, 36n7, 51

Absolute Incorporating, 204

acquisition of, 50, 51, 74, 173–176

Alternate Generation Cousin

Skewing, 207

Alternate Generation Sibling

Skewing, 207

amitoreciprocal, 206, 214, 223, 235, 244–247, 252n33, 253n38, 333–335, 364

avoreciprocal, 206, 214, 223, 235, 244–247, 252n33, 253n38, 313, 315, 333–335, 370

avunculoreciprocal, 206, 214, 223, 235, 244–247, 252n33, 253n38, 314, 325, 333–335, 338nl

alternate generation merging, 26, 185, 208n3, 328, 329, 333, 334, 363

Arabic (Bifurcate Collateral), 72, 148, 189, 199, 200, 203–207, 211–254, 300, 301, 324, 334, 364, 370, 371, 379n8

birth-order names, 171, 281

body part names, 171, 176, 178n13

borrowing of, 152, 153

classificatory, 24, 79, 81, 186, 201

Collateral Incorporating, 204, 205

collection of, 142