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Why do people in a few societies scattered around the globe call relatives of different generations by the same terms? This question has perplexed anthropologists since 1871. A successor to the landmark 1998 book Transformations of Kinship, this volume includes the latest work on the "Crow-Omaha problem" from the world's leading scholars.

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Why do people in a few societies scattered around the globe call relatives of different generations by the same terms? This question has perplexed anthropologists since 1871. A successor to the landmark 1998 book Transformations of Kinship, this volume includes the latest work on the "Crow-Omaha problem" from the world's leading scholars.
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Thomas R. Trautmann is an emeritus professor of history and anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has published numerous books and was co-editor of the pioneering Transformations of Kinship. Peter M. Whiteley is Curator of North American Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, an adjunct professor of anthropology at Columbia University, and an affiliated professor in the PhD program in anthropology at the City University of New York. He is the author of several books, including Rethinking Hopi Ethnography.