and biology; see biology

and cultural vocabulary, 142

and genetics, 140, 141, 341–387

historical, 140

history of, 70–89

and human origins and dispersals, 139–144, 197

and the langue/parole distinction, 50, 175

and long-range comparison, 123, 149

and multilateral comparison; see Greenberg, Joseph

and the neo-Romantic tradition, 149

and semantics, 149

and the Swadesh word-list, 140, 141

Linneaus, Carl, 75

Lithuanian

kin terms, 328, 329

Little Salt Spring site, 350

Lobi

kin terms, 275, 292

logic; see also abduction, kin terminologies

Aristotelian, 27, 36n2

Boolean-Fregean, 26

of class membership, 113

Indian, 36n2, 83

relational, 23–35, 36nl

Lolo; see also Yi

kin terms, 269

Longuda

kin terms, 292

Looma

kin terms, 274

Lounsbury, Floyd, 26, 97, 125, 163, 164, 191, 292, 303

Lowie, Robert, 72, 95, 199, 229, 252n30, 278, 379n8

Luaniua

kin terms, 235, 333

Lubbock, John, 74

Luburua

kin terms, 334

Lucy, John, 105

Luhmann, Niklas, 187, 188

Lydian

names from kin terms, 157

Lyell, Charles, 41, 44–49, 116, 386

and human races, 92

Lysenko, Trofim, 117

Lysenkoism; see Lysenko, Trofim

MacFarlane, Alexander, 24, 25, 33, 36n4, 36n5

McIlvaine, Joshua H., 5, 6, 8, 20, 42, 78, 94

McKinley, Robert, 137n3, 181n31

McKinsey, J. C. C., 25

McLennan, John, 24, 55, 60–62, 63, 68, 69

on totemism, 58n4

Madak

kin terms, 334

Madina

kin terms, 334

madness; see genius

Maine, Henry Sumner, 24, 62, 69

and marriage to first cousin, 121

and his theory of kinship, 60, 61

Maitland, Frederic W., 68

Makhuwa

kin terms, 137n3, 163

Makushi

kin terms, 269

Malayalam

kin terms, 279

Malayo-Polynesian languages kin terms, 329–337