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Endnotes
1. Bibliography and Database. Only some of the literature utilized for the present study made it into References. For a full bibliography, see my Web site www.kinshipstudies.org. The Web site also contains a database in Excel format in which the actual lexemes are reproduced. Abbreviations. Abbreviations for kin types are standard (see A. Barnard & Good, 1984): F “ father,” M “mother,” B “brother,” Z “sister,” S “son,” D “daughter,” W “wife,” H “husband,” Sb “sibling,” o “older,” y “younger,” m “male,” f “female,” St “step-.” The string FoBDy reads “father's older brother's daughter younger than Ego”; the string mPxSibS is “the son of father's sister or mother's brother for male Ego,” or “bilateral cross-cousin for male Ego.”
2. For a bibliography of Murdock's oeuvre spanning 4 decades, see Donohue(1985).