migration to central Mexico, 73, 74

Najlis, Elena, 284n15

Nakanai

kin terms, 334

names; see also onomastics and modes of bestowing, 90n7, 134, 156

as “rigid” designators, 100

and shifters, 180n27

in the system of language, 162

Napolskikh, Vladimir V., 360n3

Nasupo

kin terms, 248

nationalism

and American literature, 60

and European Enlightenment, 70

Native American, 92, 93, 341–387

cranial capacity, 21n2, 76

craniology, 353, 375, 376

and cultural similarities with the Old World, 344, 357, 360n3

dentition, 352, 353

demography, 348, 349, 375, 376

folklore, 360n3

genetics, 347–352, 365, 366, 369, 370, 371, 374–377, 382, 387nl

and their influence on mainstream American culture, 54, 55

intelligence quotient values, 21n2

kinship systems and terminologies, 24, 123, 156, 230, 234, 236, 244, 245, 268–272, 274, 277, 281, 282, 283nl, 290, 295, 297–307, 327, 363–379, 382

land rights, 8, 46, 59

languages, 78, 81–83, 142, 283nl, 342–346, 357, 365, 368, 375, 376

in polygenist thought, 76, 93

and the single-migration hypothesis, 363, 364

and the Ten Lost Tribes of

Israel myth, 93, 358, 359

and the three-migrations hypothesis, 363, 364

as a “vanishing race,”, 33, 92, 93

Natufian culture, 366

natural theology; see theology

nature

in American imagination, 55, 56

as opposed to nurture, 80

Naturphilosophie, 42

Navajo

kin terms, 236, 313–317

mtDNA, 371

Pueblo influence on, 371

Neandertals; see humans

Needham, Rodney, 25, 36n5, 99, 121, 147, 163

Negritos, 95

Nehan

kin terms, 334

Nembe

kin terms, 235

Nenets

kin terms, 240, 241

Nettle, Daniel, 346, 347, 372, 373

new reproductive technologies, 123

Negritos

kinship, 234

Nerlove, Sarah B., 255, 256, 258–263

Nez Perce

kin terms, 269