Lamarckism; see Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste

Lambadi, 154

Lamet

kin terms, 283n6

Langdon, Margaret, 165, 166

language; see also kinship, kinship studies, kin terminologies acquisition of, 50, 51, 74, 173–175

child, 71–75

evolution of, 52

head-marking vs. dependent-marking, 159, 161, 201, 202n2, 365

and inalienable possession, 158, 159, 179n14, 179n17, 356, 365

origin of, 175

and race, 82, 83

and reported speech, 162, 172

and the semantics vs. pragmatics distinction, 133

and shifterssee also Jakobson, Roman, 162

and silence, 58n3

social factors in, 100, 101

and speech act, 174, 176

Lapita culture, 330

Lapps; see Sami

Laravat

kin terms, 277, 278, 290

Lassik

kin terms, 315

Lati

kin terms, 336

Latin, 73, 86, 150

kinship, 152, 191, 229, 328, 371, 372

Lavrovskii, Piotr, 84, 85, 101

Lawa

kin terms, 283n6

Laz

kin terms, 278, 279, 285n23, 327

Lazarus, Moritz, 96

Leach, Edmund, 97, 163

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, 36nl, 63

Lele

kin terms, 275

Leningrad School of Africanistics, 101

Lerma/El Jobo points, 360nl

Lesser, Alexander, 230

L'Etang, Matthey de, 151, 152

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 97–99, 103, 120, 121, 125, 128n10, 134, 135, 182, 183n37, 189, 202n3, 298, 377

and alliance theory, 63, 302

and the “atom of kinship, “, 111, 191

and correspondence with David Schneider, 137nl

and the study of Native American mythology, 95

on totemism, 58n4

levirate, 106

lexicography, 104, 122

Lhota Naga

kin terms, 290

Limalua

kin terms, 334

lineage theory, 124, 134, 298, 302

see also kinship

linguistic relativity; see kinship

linguistics; see also etymology, lexicography

and archaeology, 143, 147, 341–387, 361n6

and basic vocabulary, 141, 142, 145nl, 149