Product of a roundtable held in the Maison Suger in June 1993. Includes bibliographical references (p. 414-443) and index.
Contents:
'Dravidian,' 'Iroquois,' and 'Crow-Omaha' in North American perspective / Thomas R. Trautmann and R.H. Barnes -- On the formal analysis of 'Dravidian,' 'Iroquois,' and 'generational' varieties as nearly associative combinations / Franklin E. Tjon Sie Fat -- Developmental processes in the pre-contact history of Athapaskan, Algonquian, and Numic kin systems / John W. Ives -- Kinship and Dravidianate logic: some implications for understanding power, politics, and social life in a northern Dene community / Michael Asch -- Dravidian nomenclature as an expression of ego-centered dualism / Emmanuel Désveaux and Marion Selz -- Serial redundancy in Amazonian social structure: is there a method for poststructuralist comparison? / Alf Hornborg -- Jivaro kinship: 'simple' and 'complex' formulas: a Dravidian transformation group / Anne-Christine Taylor -- Taking sides: marriage networks and Dravidian kinship in lowland South America / Michael Houseman and Douglas R. White -- On double language and the relativity of incest: the Campa sociology of a Dravidian-type terminology / France-Marie Renard-Casevitz -- Dravidian and Iroquois in South Asia / Robert Parkin -- Transformations of kinship systems in eastern Indonesia / Jean-François Guermonprez -- The synchro-diachronic method and the multidirectionality of kinship transformations / M.V. Kryukov -- The prehistory of Dravidian-type terminologies / N.J. Allen -- Dravidian and related kinship systems / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- Afterword: transformations and lines of evolution / Maurice Godelier.
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