List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables Abbreviations for Kin Types Introduction 1. Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies ~ Doug Jones and Bojka Milicic 2. Anthropology, Mathematics, and Per Hage's Contribution to Kinship Theory ~ David Jenkins Part 1. Kinship and Prehistory 3. Back to Proto-Sapiens (Part 1): The Inherited Kinship Terms Papa, Mama, and Kaka ~ Alain Matthey de l'Etang, Pierre Bancel, and Merritt Ruhlen 4. Back to Proto-Sapiens (Part 2): The Global Kinship Terms Papa, Mama and Kaka ~ Pierre Bancel, Alain Matthey de l'Etang, and John D. Bengtson 5. Reconstructing Ancient Kinship: Practice and Theory in an African Case Study ~ Christopher Ehret 6.

Proto-Bantu Descent Groups ~ Per Hage and Jeff Marck 7. Kin Terms in the East Bantu Protolanguages: Initial Findings ~ Jeff Mark, Per Hage, Koen Bostoen, and Jean-Georges Kamba Muzenga 8. Proto-Oceanic Society (Austronesian) and Proto-East Bantu Society (Niger-Congo) Residence, Descent, and Kin Terms, ca. 1000 BC ~ Jeff Mark and Koen Bostoen 9. Oceanic Cousin Terms and Marriage Alliance ~ Per Hage 10. The Transition from Kariera to an Asymmetrical System: Cape York Peninsula to North-East Arnhemland ~ Patrick McConvell and Ian Keen 11. Proto-Central Amerind *Pa: "Father's Sister"="Mother-in-Law" ~ Per Hage Part II. Kinship, Language, and Mind 12.

What is Malay Kinship Primarily About? Or, the New Kinship Studies and the Fabrication of Ethnographic Fantasy ~ Warren Shapiro 13. The Logic and Structure of Kinship Terminologies: Implications for Theory and Historical Reconstructions ~ Dwight Read 14. Salience of Verticality and Horizontality in American and Tongan Kinship Terminologies ~ Giovanni Bennardo and Dwight Read 15. Marking and Language Change ~ David Kronenfeld 16. Grammars of Kinship and Color: Cognitive Universals and Optimal Communication ~ Doug Jones 17. Is There a Kinship Module?: Evidence from Children's Acquisition of Kinship Terms in Pitumarca, Peru ~ Bojka Milicic References List of Contributors Index.