Linguistics

103

Economics, Sociology, Psychology

109

Biology

114

Kinship Studies as Myth and Science

120

Part II:
The Global Diversity of Kinship Terminological Systems: Generation, Age, and Gender

129

Chapter 7:
Consanguinity, Affinity, Adoption, Divorce, and Mortality: The Structure of a Symbolic System

131

Chapter 8:
Kinship and the Current Studies of Human Evolutionary History

139

Chapter 9:
Kinship and Language

147

Human Kinship and Linguistic Kinship: The Natural Ground of a Metaphor

147

Kin Terms and Language Structure

151

Chapter 10:
The Basic Logical Pattern

185

Chapter 11:
The Historical Typology of Kin Terminological Systems

197

Chapter 12:
The Range of Horizontal and Vertical Variation in Kin Terminologies

203