List of Figures

Introduction

Part I: Terminological change

Chapter 1. Kinship as classification: towards a paradigm of change
Chapter 2. Terminology and alliance in India: tribal systems and the north-south problem
Chapter 3. From tetradic society to dispersed alliance
Chapter 4. Why do societies abandon cross-cousin marriage?
Chapter 5. Dravidian and Iroquois in South Asia
Chapter 6. Indo-European kinship terminologies in Europe: trajectories of change

Part II: Crow-Omaha

Chapter 7. On the origin of Crow-Omaha terminologies
Chapter 8. Substitutability of kin and the Crow-Omaha problem
Chapter 9. The evolution of kinship terminologies: non-prescriptive forms of asymmetric alliance in Indonesia

Conclusion

Glossary
Appendix: Publications on kinship by Robert Parkin
Index

Robert Parkin was Departmental Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, from 2002 until his retirement in 2017. He has conducted field research in India, the UK, Brussels, northern Italy, and Poland.