BENEDICTE NIELSEN WHITEHEAD, BIRGIT ANETTE OLSEN, and JANUS BAHS JACQUET (eds.): Kin, Clan and Community in Indo-European Society

The review discusses the volume "Kin, Clan and Community in Indo-European Society", edited by Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Birgit Anette Olsen, and Janus Bahs Jacquet (2020. Charlottenlund: Museum Tusculanum Press). The first seven chapters deal with kinship terminology and family structure, in general (ch. I by Milanova) and within the Indo-European traditions, both in Proto-Indo-European (ch. II by Olsen) and in some historical traditions, namely in the Anatolian (ch. III by Serangeli), Avestan (ch. IV by Andrés-Toledo), Latin (ch. V by Nielsen Whitehead), Germanic (ch. VI by Hansen), and Albanian (ch. VII by Hyllested) traditions. The last three chapters form a relatively smaller second part dealing with topics involving marriage: consanguinity taboos in various ancient IE and non-IE traditions (ch. VIII by Nielsen Whitehead), marriage procedures in Anatolia (ch. IX by Serangeli), and wooing in IE traditions (ch. X by Janda).