Contents -- Guide to Abbreviations and Orthography -- Chapter 1. Kinship, Semantics, and Linguistic Relativity -- Mopan Kinship -- Kinship Theory: Universal and Relative -- Linguistic Relativity -- Psychological Reality -- Abstract of Method -- Chapter 2. The Mopan Setting -- Ethnographic Setting -- The Ethnographer's Expectations and Experiences -- Chapter 3. The Meanings of Kinship Terms -- The Piagetian Definition Task -- The Question of Kinship -- The Tzik Relationship Terms of Mopan -- Chapter 4. Tzik and Kinship -- The Native Speaker's View -- Mopan Life Ich Naj ('in the House') -- Tzik Relationships and Their Socialization -- Chapter 5. Creating Tzik Relationships -- Ritually Established Relationships -- Acquiring Relationships through Marriage -- Performative Aspects of Tzik Appellation -- What Does Generation Mean? -- Chapter 6. Three Semantic Analyses and Their Consequences -- Semantic Analyses -- Acquisition Outcomes and Linguistic Relativity -- Chapter 7. Formal Findings -- Putting the Question -- Data Tabulation -- Data Analysis -- Chapter 8. Language, Thought, and Reality -- Review -- Some Explanatory Explorations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.