Indo-European Language and Society

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 King
5: Honour and Honours
6: Magic Power
7: Krátos
8: Royalty and Nobility
The King and his People
Book 5: Law1: themis
2: dike
ius and the Oath in Rome
*med- and the Concept of Measure
5: fas
6: The censor and auctoritas
The quaestor and the *prex
8: The Oath in Geece
Book 6: Religion1: The 'Sacred'
2: The Libation
3: The Sacrifice
4: The Vow
5: Prayer and Supplication
The Latin Vocabulary of Signs and Omens
7: Religion and Superstition