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Kinship, language, and prehistory : Per Hage and the renaissance in kinship studies / edited by Doug Jones and Bojka Milicic.

Other author/creatorJones, Doug, 1950 January 17-
Other author/creatorMilicic, Bojka, 1959-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoSalt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxiii, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Per Hage and the renaissance in kinship studies / Doug Jones, Bojka Milicic -- Anthropology, mathematics, and Per Hage's contribution to kinship theory / David Jenkins -- Back to proto-sapiens. Part 1, The inherited kinship terms papa, mama, and kaka / Alain Matthey de L'Etang, Pierre Bancel, Merritt Ruhlen -- Back to proto-sapiens. Part 2, The global kinship terms papa, mama, and kaka / Pierre Bancel, Alain Matthey de L'Etang, John D. Bengtson -- Reconstructing ancient kinship : practice and theory in an African case study / Christopher Ehret -- Proto-Bantu descent groups / Per Hage, Jeff Marck -- Kin terms in the East Bantu protolanguages : initial findings / Jeff Marck ... [et al.] -- Proto-Oceanic society (Austronesian) and proto-East Bantu society (Niger-Congo) residence, descent, and kin terms, ca. 1000 BC / Jeff Marck, Koen Bostoen -- Oceanic cousin terms and marriage alliance / Per Hage -- The transition from Kariera to an asymmetrical system : Cape York Peninsula to north-east Arnhemland / Patrick McConvell, Ian Keen -- Proto-central Amerind *Pa : "father's sister" = "mother-in-law" / Per Hage -- What is Malay kinship primarily about? : or, The new kinship studies and the fabrication of ethnographic fantasy / Warren Shapiro -- The logic and structure of kinship terminologies : implications for theory and historical reconstructions / Dwight Read -- Salience of verticality and horizontality in American and Tongan kinship terminologies / Giovanni Bennardo, Dwight Read -- Marking and language change / David Kronenfeld -- Grammars of kinship and color : cognitive universals and optimal communication / Doug Jones -- Is there a kinship module? : evidence from children's acquisition of kinship terms in Pitumarca, Peru / Bojka Milicic.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index.
LCCN 2010018416
ISBN9781607810056 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1607810050 (cloth : alk. paper)

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