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In this book, which was originally published in 1974, lexical
reconstruction is used to provide links between cultural and social
anthropology and linguistics. The Athapaskan language family has
members in Alaska, western Canada, the west coast and southwest of
the United States, and Oklahoma. The authors use the kinship
terminology of existing Athapaskan languages and dialects to
provide a lexical reconstruction of the kinship terminology of the
mother-language, Proto-Athapaskan, which existed perhaps 1,500 or
more years ago. A central contribution of the work is the explicit
delineation of the method used in lexical reconstruction to arrive
at the likeliest inferences about the meanings of proto-lexemes.
Other methodological contributions include a method for inferring
features of social organization from kinship terminology and for
reconstructing other features of social organization from the
distribution of these features among existing groups.
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