In some cases (such as regional distribution), the conclusions without ethnological analysis are wholly worthless and even misleading.
The first of these was the quest by social theorists for a convincing means to displace evolutionist ethnological and social paradigms.
Had the author consulted the modern ethnological sources instead of outdated ethnographies, many of these problems could have been avoided.
We refer below to single ethnological reports only in cases of specific information.
Our ethnological perspective, and hence our conclusions, are unlikely to be shared by all.
The theme of this volume, social life, refers to a functionalist framework that is used to organise the author's ethnological material.
The initial chapters provide an introduction to the ethnological, geographic, and historical context for the language.
This record of the terms pertaining to a semantic field and its ethnographic context became the data of ethnological analysis and interpretation.
