Author: Lewis Henry MorganPublisher:
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Category : Consanguinity
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A Conjectural Solution of the Origin of the Classificatory System of Relationship
Author: Lewis Henry MorganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consanguinity
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Studies in Ancient History
Author: John Ferguson McLennanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Southern Anthropology - a History of Fison and Howitt’s Kamilaroi and Kurnai
Author: Helen GardnerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137463813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Southern Anthropology, the history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai is the biography of Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880) written from both a historical and anthropological perspective. Southern Anthropology investigates the authors' work on Aboriginal and Pacific people and the reception of their book in metropolitan centres.
Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family
Author: Lewis Henry MorganPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282308
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Modern anthropology would be radically different without this book. Published in 1871, this first major study of kinship, inventive and wide-ranging, created a new field of inquiry in anthropology. Drawing partly upon his own fieldwork among American Indians, anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan examined the kinship systems of over one hundred cultures, probing for similarities and differences in their organization. In his attempt to discover particular types of marriage and descent systems across the globe, Morgan demonstrated the centrality of kinship relations in many cultures. Kinship, it was revealed, was an important key for understanding cultures and could be studied through systematic, scientific means. ø Anthropologists continue to wrestle with the premises, methodology, and conclusions of Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity. Scholars such as W. H. R. Rivers, Robert Lowie, Meyer Fortes, Fred Eggan, and Claude Lävi-Strauss have acknowledged their intellectual debt to this study; those less sympathetic to Morgan?s treatment of kinship nonetheless do not question its historical significance and impact on the development of modern anthropology.
Studies in Ancient History, comprising a reprint of Primitive Marriage, an inquiry into the origin of the form of capture in marriage ceremonies
Author: John Ferguson MACLENNAN (LL.D.)Publisher:
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Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Studies in Ancient History, Comprising a Reprint of Primitive Marriage
Author: John Ferguson McLennanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Studies in Ancient History, Comprising a Reprint of Primitive Marriage, Etc
Author: John Ferguson McLennanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
A Century of Controversy
Author: Elman R ServicePublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483269604
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A Century of Controversy: Ethnological Issues from 1860 to 1960 is an assessment of the history of ethnology in terms of its intellectual progress, with emphasis on the controversial issues that were broached between 1860 and 1960. Two related philosophical or theoretical poses that characterized the prominent ethnological thinkers of this period, and earlier, are related to this phenomenon. One was the prevalent positivism, the other the belief in human progress as a form of social, cultural, and mental evolution. Comprised of 19 chapters, this volume begins by looking at several eminent scholars dealing more closely with the subject of ethnology, including Henry Maine and John F. McLennan in Great Britain; Johann J. Bachofen in Switzerland; and Fustel de Coulanges in France. In particular, the chapter examines the disagreement among Maine, Bachofen, McLennan, and Fustel de Coulanges as to the nature of the earliest society and its form of marriage; the nature of the evolutionary transformations of society (especially from primitive society to civilization); and the actual meaning and function of kinship terminology. The next two chapters describe the positive, useful discoveries as well as the mistakes and weaknesses of Lewis H. Morgan's work, with particular reference to his classificatory kinship nomenclature. Subsequent sections focus on controversies surrounding kinship terminology; social structure; the origins of government; the economic life of primitive peoples; and society and culture. This book will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology.
Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge
Author: The Reinvention of Primitive Society
Author: Adam KuperPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351852973
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The Reinvention of Primitive Society critiques ideas about the origins of society and religion that have been hotly debated since Darwin. Tracing interpretations of the barbarian, savage and primitive back through the centuries to ancient Greece, Kuper challenges the myth of primitive society, a concept revived in its current form by the modern indigenous peoples’ movement: tapping into widespread popular beliefs regarding the noble savage and reflecting a romantic reaction against ‘civilisation’ and ‘science’. Through a fascinating analysis of seminal works in anthropology, classical studies and law, this book reveals how wholly mistaken theories can become the basis for academic research and political programmes. Lucidly written and highly influential since first publication, it is a must-have text for those interested in anthropological theory and post-colonial debates.