Alexander I, Russian Tsar, 64

Alfieri, Vittorio, 15

Algic language family

kin terms, 229, 300, 317–319, 364, 370, 371

nominal classifiers in, 319

origin and dispersal, 316, 318

Algonquian languages

kin terms, 229, 268, 272, 273, 280, 283nl, 289, 300, 301, 327

mtDNA, 371

origin and dispersal, 316, 318, 361n6

proto-kin terms, 301

Allen, Nick J., 125, 133, 145n2, 185–188, 190, 191, 199, 213, 214, 228, 250nl, 279, 288, 289, 299, 300

; see also Tetradic theory

Allen, W. Sydney, 179n17

alliance theory, 63, 69, 98, 124, 125, 134, 298, 302

kinship critique of, 303

Altaian

mtDNA, 355

X chromosome, 351

Altaic language family

kin terms, 238, 242, 268, 290, 291, 323, 326, 327, 370

Altschuler, Nathan, 106

Amahuaca

kin terms, 235

Amarakaeri

kin terms, 236

Amazonia

kinship, 270, 295, 297–307

America

peopling of, 309–387

American Indians;

see Native Americans

American Oriental Society, 5

Amerind hypothesis, 342, 346, 376

Amhara

mtDNA, 371

Ami

kin terms, 335

Amish, 120

Amuzgo

kin terms, 236

analogy, 10

Andaman Islanders

kinship, 356, 362n12

languages, 356

mtDNA and Y chromosome, 356

Angami Naga

kin terms, 269

anthropology;

see also Boasian anthropology, phrenology

and biology, 117

British, 95, 97, 98, 103, 121

and the concept of culture, 143

of death, 132, 133

four-field, 143

French, 97, 98, 103

and geology, 58nl

German, 103

and indigenous models of reality, 181n30

and law, 68, 69, 137nl

and mathematics, 266

and missionaries, 137nl

and psychology, 110

and relativism, 181n30

Russian-Soviet, 101–103

and the study of kinship, 25, 26, 93, 142, 143

and theology, 51

Apache

kin terms, 235, 272, 313–317, 338n3