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Book 1: Economy Section 1: Livestock and Wealth1: Male and Sire 2: A Lexical Opposition in Need of Revision: sus and porcus Próbaton and the Homeric Economy 4: pecu and pecunia Section 2: Giving and Taking5: Gift and Exchange 6: Giving, Taking, and Receiving 7: Hospitality 8: Personal Loyalty Section 3: Purchase9: Two Ways of Buying 10: Purchase and Redemption 11: An Occupation without a Name Section 4: Economic Obligations12: Accountancy and Valuation 13: Hiring and Leasing 14: Price and Wages 15: Credence and Belief 16: Lending, Borrowing, and Debt 17: Gratuitousness and Gratefulness The Vocabulary of KinshipIntroduction The Importance of the Concept of Paternity Status of the Mother and Matrilineal Descent The Principle of Exogamy and its Applications The Indo-European Expression for "Marriage" 5: Kinship Resulting from Marriage Formation and Suffixation of the Terms for Kinship Words Derived from the Terms for Kinship Book 3: Social Status1: Tripartition of Functions The Four Divisions of Society 3: The Free Man 4: phílos The Slave and the Stranger 6: Cities and Communities Royalty and its Privileges1: rex 2: xsay- and Iranian Kingship 3: Hellenic Kingship The Authority of the

Author

Émile Benveniste

Publisher

Harvard / University of Miami Press

Language

EN