Omaha

kin terms, 301, 307n10

Omotic languages, 367

kin terms, 280, 285n27

onomasticssee also names, 100

onomatopoeia, 74

and the origin of languages, 87

On Your Knees Cave, 351

Oppenheimer, Stephen, 361n8

Orientals; see Asia

Orochi

kin terms, 239

Orok

Kin terms, 296n4

Oromo

kin terms, 154

Orthodox Christianity

and marriage laws, 119

Ossetian

kin terms, 264, 265

Ostyak; see Khanty

Oto-Manguean language family, 376

kin terms, 271, 272

Otomi

kin terms, 268, 269, 271, 272

out-of-Africa model of human dispersals, 140, 141, 341–387

Owen, Richard, 42

Pacific; see Oceania

Pacoh

kin terms, 227, 228

Paita

kin terms, 333

Paiute

kin terms, 252n33

Paiwan

kin terms, 335

Palau

kin terms, 277, 290

Palaung

kin terms, 283n6

Palaungic languages

kin terms, 283n6

Paleoasiatic languages

kin terms, 237

Paleo-Eurasian substrate, 323

Pallas, Peter Simon, 63

Pama-Nyungan language family kin terms, 226, 227

Pame

kin terms, 236, 368

Panoan language family kin terms, 245, 269, 272, 288, 299

Papago

kin terms, 161, 216

Papua New Guinea

and bullroarer, 357

craniology, 353

autochthonous population of, 331

influence on Austronesian languages, 251n23

kinship, 219, 226, 236, 238, 265, 268–272, 277, 290, 294, 298, 305, 322, 369, 382

mtDNA and Y chromosome, 331, 332

X chromosome, 351

Parker, Ely Samuel, 4

Parkin, Robert, 104

Parsons, Elsie C., 156

paternity

partible, 126

patriarchal theory, 61, 68

in diffusionism, 94

Pawnee

kin terms, 179n19

Pearson, Karl, 30, 34, 35, 120

Peirce, Charles, 25, 26–30, 34, 35, 36n6, 36, 37n7, 97, 120, 150, 173