Lewis Henry Morgan's Comparisons : : Reassessing Terminology, Anarchy and Worldview in Indigenous Societies of America, Australia and Highland Middle India / / Georg Pfeffer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Pfeffer, Georg,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Tables --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction. The Initiative --; Chapter 1. The Life and Work of Lewis Henry Morgan (1818–81) --; Chapter 2. Tools and Types --; Chapter 3. Seneca Revisited --; Chapter 4. Omaha Skewing Reconsidered --; Chapter 5. Highland Middle Indian Terminologies --; Chapter 6. Schneider, Relatedness, ‘Malayan’ and a General Comparison --; Chapter 7. Social Evolution and the Australian Anomaly --; Chapter 8. Order in Anarchy: HMI ‘Gentile Organization’ Compared --; Chapter 9. Bridewealth and Gender in Highland Middle India --; Chapter 10. The Dark Side of the Moon --; Conclusion. For the Record --; Glossary --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789203189; 9783110997729
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789203189?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Georg Pfeffer.

About 150 years ago Lewis Henry Morgan compared relationship terminologies, societal forms and ideas of property to recognize the interdependence of the three domains. From a new perspective, the book re-examines, confirms and criticizes Morgan’s findings to conclude that reciprocal affinal relations determine most ‘classificatory’ terminologies and regulate many non-state societies, their property notions and their rituals. Apart from references to American and Australian features, such holistic socio-cultural constructs are exemplified by elaborate descriptions of little known contemporary Indigenous societies in Highland Middle India, altogether comprising many millions of members.