Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-239) and index
Introduction -- Reconstructing kinship : the pragmatics of kin talk -- The implicatures of everyday life : Mambila social deixis -- Asking about people, not about kin terms : an experiment in method and interpretation -- Translation, anthropology, kinship -- The ethnography of a Mambila conversation -- A conversation in Somié -- The distribution of person-referring expressions in natural conversation -- Summing up kin talk -- Conclusion