Lewis Henry Morgan's Comparisons : : Reassessing Terminology, Anarchy and Worldview in Indigenous Societies of America, Australia and Highland Middle India / / 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 relation...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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