Kinship, Language and Prehistory

Pierre Bancel, Association d'Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques Pr\u00e9historiques, Paris; John Bengtson, Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory; Giovanni Bennardo, Northern Illinois University; Koen Bostoen, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, and Universit\u00e9 libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; Christopher Ehret, University of California at Los Angeles; Per Hage, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah; David Jenkins, Roundhouse Institute for Field Studies; Douglas Jones, University of Utah; Ian Keen, Australian National University; David Kronenfeld, University of California, Riverside; Jeff Marck, Australian National University; Alain Matthey de l'Etang, Association d'Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques Pr\u00e9historiques, Paris; Patrick McConvell, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra; Bojka Milicic, University of Utah; Jean-Georges Kamba Muzenga, Institut Sup\u00e9rieur P\u00e9dagogique de Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Dwight Read, University of California, Los Angeles; Merritt Ruhlen, Stanford University; Warren Shapiro, Rutgers University

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