Indo-European Language and Society

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Title
Preface
Abbreviations
Book I: Economy
Section 1: Livestock and Wealth
Chapter 1. Male and Sire
Chapter 2. A Lexical Opposition in Need of Revision: sūs and porcus
Chapter 3. Próbaton and the Homeric Economy
Chapter 4. Livestock and Money: pecu and pecunia
Section 2: Giving and Taking
Chapter 5. Gift and Exchange
Chapter 6. Giving, Taking, and Receiving
Chapter 7. Hospitality
Chapter 8. Personal Loyalty
Section 3: Purchase
Chapter 9. Two Ways of Buying
Chapter 10. Purchase and Redemption
Chapter 11. An Occupation without a Name: Commerce
Section 4: Economic Obligations
Chapter 12. Accountancy and Valuation
Chapter 13. Hiring and Leasing
Chapter 14. Price and Wages
Chapter 15. Credence and Belief
Chapter 16. Lending, Borrowing, and Debt
Chapter 17. Gratuitousness and Gratefulness
Book II: The Vocabulary of Kinship
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Importance of the Concept of Paternity
Chapter 2. Status of the Mother and Matrilineal Descent
Chapter 3. The Principle of Exogamy and its Applications
Chapter 4. The Indo-European Expression for “Marriage” [1]
Chapter 5. Kinship Resulting from Marriage
Chapter 6. Formation and Suffixation of the Terms for Kinship
Chapter 7. Words Derived from the Terms for Kinship
Book III: Social Status
Chapter 1. Tripartition of Functions
Chapter 2. The Four Divisions of Society
Chapter 3. The Free Man
Chapter 4. Phílos
Chapter 5. The Slave and the Stranger
Chapter 6. Cities and Communities
Book IV: Royalty and its Privileges
Chapter 1. Rex
Chapter 2. xšay- and Iranian Kingship
Chapter 3. Hellenic Kingship
Chapter 4. The Authority of the King
Chapter 5. Honour and Honours
Chapter 6. Magic Power
Chapter 7. Krátos
Chapter 8. Royalty and Nobility
Chapter 9. The King and His People
Book V: Law
Chapter 1. Thémis
Chapter 2. Díkē
Chapter 3. Ius and the Oath in Rome
Chapter 4. *med- and the Concept of Measure
Chapter 5. Fas
Chapter 6. The Censor and Auctoritas
Chapter 7. The Quaestor and the *Prex
Chapter 8. The Oath in Greece
Book VI: Religion
Chapter 1. The “Sacred”
Chapter 2. The Libation
Chapter 3. The Sacrifice
Chapter 4. The Vow
Chapter 5. Prayer and Supplication
Chapter 6. The Latin Vocabulary of Signs and Omens
Chapter 7. Religion and Superstition

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