Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family

by Lewis Henry Morgan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803282303
• ISBN13: 9780803282308
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 604 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.4" x 10.9"