Full Description
This book analyses the latest trends in Indo-European studies, combining linguistic study with insights from archaeology, anthropology and archaeogenetics, in an attempt to shed new light on the social structure of the pastoralist society of Proto-Indo-European speakers. The book opens with a brief introduction on the benefits of approaching Indo-European studies from an anthropological angle. This is followed by nine chapters representing the two main thematic parts of the book: one on kinship terminology and family structure, and one on structures that function across and unite families, namely wooing and marriage. Part one includes a lengthy chapter which gives an overview of Proto-Indo-European terminology, as well as five chapters focusing on individual branches or languages: Anatolian, Avestan, Latin, Germanic and Albanian. Part two starts off with a chapter on how consanguinity affected marriage in various early Indo-European societies, followed by a chapter on Anatolian marriage and marriage types, and finally a chapter on what ancient sources, primarily from Greece, can tell us about processes and rites related to wooing. Together, these studies combine to form the first study of Indo-European family structure to draw on linguistics, archaeology and genetics, and the book is an important contribution to our understanding of how social and family structures developed in prehistoric and early historic times.
Contents
Preface 20
Veronika Milanova
Indo-European kinship terms as an interdisciplinary topic 23
Birgit Anette Olsen
Kin, clan and community in Proto-Indo-European society 39
Matilde Serangeli
Kinship terms in the Anatolian languages 181
Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo
Avestan kinship terms and the ninefold division of the Avestan family 219
Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead
Family structures in Rome 233
Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen
Primary kinship terms in Germanic 361
Adam Hyllested
First-degree kinship terms in Albanian 397
Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead
Consanguinity and marriage in some early Indo-European cultures 423
Matilde Serangeli
Marriage in Hittite Anatolia 475
Michael Janda
Wooing in Indo-European culture 499
Bibliography 515
Index verborum 569
Index rerum 605