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...
Modern anthropology would be radically different without this book. Published in 1871, this first major study of kinship, inventive and wide-ranging, ...
This text serves as a general introduction and index to Huron culture. It is a compilation of the ethnographic data contained in 17th-century descriptions of the Huron Indians by Samuel de Champlain, Gabriel Sagard and various French Jesuits.
This text serves as a general introduction and index to Huron culture. It is a compilation of the ethnographic data contained in 17th-century descript...
This text serves as a general introduction and index to Huron culture. It is a compilation of the ethnographic data contained in 17th-century descriptions of the Huron Indians by Samuel de Champlain, Gabriel Sagard and various French Jesuits.
This text serves as a general introduction and index to Huron culture. It is a compilation of the ethnographic data contained in 17th-century descript...