Austro-Tai languages, 279, 336, 337

Avesta, 83

Avicenna, 36nl

Avuna

kin terms, 275

Awa

kin terms, 269, 295

Ayoreo

kin terms, 269

Azande, 134

kin terms, 274

Azarevich, Dmitrii, 137nl

Azerbaijani

kin terms, 238

mtDNA, 361nll, 378n4

Azteco-Tanoan languages

kin terms, 319–322, 338n4

Azteco-Zoquean languages

kin terms, 338n4

Aztecs; see Nahuatl

Bachofen, Johann Jakob, 69, 94

Baegu

kin terms, 333

Bagiro

kin terms, 373

Bahnar

kin terms, 227, 228

Baja California

craniology, 353

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 99, 113, 114

Balkar

kin terms, 238

Ballonoff, Paul, 25

Baltic languages

kin terms, 371

Bamana

kin terms, 104, 106

Bancel, Pierre, 151, 152

Bannock

kin terms, 229

Bantu languages, 145n2

kin terms, 167, 179n20, 179n23, 247, 268, 274–276, 284n18, 306n2, 373

mtDNA, 351

origin and dispersal, 343

Barambu

kin terms, 274

Bariba

kin terms, 275

Barnes, J. A., 180, 181n28, 307nll

Barok

kin terms, 333

Barth, Karl, 51

Barthes, Roland, 100

Baruya

kin terms, 236

Basa

kin terms, 283nl

Bashkir

kin terms, 201, 270

mtDNA, 361n10

Basque

grammatical and etymological matches with Kartvelian, 325

kin terms, 267, 290, 324–329

mtDNA, nuclear and Y chromosome, 326, 371

Bastian, Adolph, 77, 93, 94

Bateson, Gregory, 55, 113, 114

Bateux, Charles Abbé, 12

Beaver

kin terms, 306n7

Becker, Gary, 109

Bednarek, Alexander R., 25

Belwood, Peter, 320

Bemba

kin terms, 168

Benedict, Paul, 254n51, 278, 279, 336