Lewis Henry Morgan S Comparisons

Author : Georg Pfeffer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 236 pages
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Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789203189

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Lewis Henry Morgan's Comparisons by Georg Pfeffer Pdf

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.

Author : Ward H. Goodenough
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521237408

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Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology by Ward H. Goodenough Pdf

How are different cultures to be described and compared? This book provides a clear and concise discussion of the theoretical issues involved in ethnographic description and comparative study. Taking up the classic problems in the study of of social organisation, Professor Goodenough describes the major issues in the cross-cultural study of kinship and the family, revealing the kinds of constants, both formal and functional, on which such study must be based. The result is new definitions of marriage, family and parenthood for use in cross-cultural analysis and a greater understanding of this form of analysis itself. The statement on the interdependence of description and comparison in cultural anthropology and its implications for a science of culture, provides fresh insights into cross-cultural analysis for both the theoretical and the practical anthropologist.

Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803260067

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Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship by Thomas R. Trautmann Pdf

Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester, New York, lawyer and pioneering anthropologist, was the leading American contributor of his generation to the social sciences. Among the classic works whose conjunction in the 1860s gave modern anthropology its shape, Morgan’s massive and technical Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family was decisive. Thomas R. Trautmann offers a new interpretation of the genesis of “kinship” and of the role it played in late nineteenth-century intellectual history. This Bison Books edition features a new introduction and appendices by the author.

Author : Meyer Fortes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136535215

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Kinship and the Social Order. by Meyer Fortes Pdf

Originally published in the UK in 1970. The central argument of this book is that the structuralist theory and method developed by British and American anthropologists in the study of kinship and social organization are the direct descendants of the researches of Lewis Henry Morgan. Re-examining Morgan's work, the book demonstrates how a tradition of mis-interpretation has disguised the true import of Morgan's discoveries and ideas for Rivers and Radcliffe-Brown and the generation of anthropologists inspired by them.

Author : Peter van der Veer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822374220

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The Value of Comparison by Peter van der Veer Pdf

In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer makes a compelling case for using comparative approaches in the study of society and for the need to resist the simplified civilization narratives popular in public discourse and some social theory. He takes the quantitative social sciences and the broad social theories they rely on to task for their inability to question Western cultural presuppositions, demonstrating that anthropology's comparative approach provides a better means to understand societies. This capacity stems from anthropology's engagement with diversity, its fragmentary approach to studying social life, and its ability to translate difference between cultures. Through essays on topics as varied as iconoclasm, urban poverty, Muslim immigration, and social exclusion van der Veer highlights the ways that studying the particular and the unique allows for gaining a deeper knowledge of the whole without resorting to simple generalizations that elide and marginalize difference.

Author : Lewis Henry Morgan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816550616

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Ancient Society by Lewis Henry Morgan Pdf

Lewis Henry Morgan studied the American Indian way of life and collected an enormous amount of factual material on the history of primitive-communal society. All the conclusions he draws are based on these facts; where he lacks them, he reasons back on the basis of the data available to him. He determined the periodization of primitive society by linking each of the periods with the development of production techniques. The “great sequence of inventions and discoveries;” and the history of institutions, with each of its three branches — family, property and government — constitute the progress made by human society from its earliest stages to the beginning of civilization. Mankind gained this progress through 'the gradual evolution of their mental and moral powers through experience, and of their protracted struggle with opposing obstacles while winning their way to civilization.'

Author : Alfred Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351522663

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Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology by Alfred Harris Pdf

The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures are intended to commemorate both the man and his work the latter being viewed as having provided an admirably broad and substantial base for anthropologists of later generations to build upon, as they have done and continue to do in diverse ways. Professor Goodenough's work, in the past and in this book particularly, emphasizes the vitality and fruitfulness of Morgan's contributions. Not only do these lectures carry forward Morgan's interests in kinship; they reflect as well his concern for comparative studies undertaken with the aim of ultimately understanding mankind. Moreover, Professor Goodenough has elucidated recent developments in the collection, analysis, and presentation of cultural data in ways that make it easier for all of us to see how his methods (in themselves specialized) can broaden and deepen our understanding of culture and of man. Morgan, himself a pioneer in method, would surely have been an attentive auditor-and discussant-at Professor Goodenough's Lectures, and in his seminars and the less formal events in which he participated while at Rochester, and to which he contributed so much. This volume is an expanded version of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures delivered at the University of Rochester, April 2 to 11, 1968. Alfred Harris was a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Rochester. He served as the chair of the anthropology from 1964-1971 and he was well known for being the editor of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures.

Author : Gilbert Lewis
Publisher : Hau
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912808323

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Pandora's Box by Gilbert Lewis Pdf

In his 1978 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, unpublished until now, Gilbert Lewis takes on essential problems for medical anthropology. Has there been progress in medicine? Consider what it was like to be ill in a Gnau village in the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea in 1968 and compare it with the experience of illness fifteen years later, after they gained independence. The changes involved some loss of self-reliance. Or consider Bregbo, a community in the Ivory Coast whose prophet offers healing through confession and, in some cases, long-term care in a therapeutic setting. What does this offer that psychiatric approaches to healing do not? Drawing on these and other cases, Lewis conveys the importance of the ethnographic comparison of medical beliefs in dynamic spaces of knowledge to do with illness, health, and healing, especially as these change over time and intersect with others. Capturing debates during a key moment in the development of medical anthropology, these lectures also inspire us to look with new eyes at contemporary problems in the field.

Author : Meyer Fortes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351510035

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Kinship and the Social Order by Meyer Fortes Pdf

One of the world's most eminent social anthropologists draws upon his many years of study and research in the field of kinship and social organization to review the development of anthropological theory and method from Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) to anthropologists of the 1960s. It is the central argument of this book that the structuralist theory and method developed by British and American anthropologists in the study of kinship and social organization is the direct descendant of Morgan's researches. The volume starts with a re-examination of Morgan's work. Professor Fortes demonstrates how a tradition of misinterpretation has disguised the true import of Morgan's discoveries. He follows with a detailed analysis of the work of Rivers and Radcliffe-Brown and the generation of anthropologists inspired by them. The author states his own point of view as it has developed in the framework of modern structuralist theory, with ethnographic examples examined in depth. He shows that the social relations and institutions conventionally grouped under the rubric of kinship and social organization belong simultaneously to two complementary domains of social structure, the familial and the political. Meyer Fortes' contribution to the field of anthropology can best be understood in the context of balance of forces between these domains of the personal and public. In the latter part of the book, he gives detailed attention to the principal conceptual issues that have confronted research and theory in the study of kinship and social organizations since Morgan's time. He shows that kinship institutions are autonomous, not mere by-products of economic requirements, and demonstrates the moral base of kinship in the rule of amity.

Author : Lewis Henry Morgan
Publisher : Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : American beaver
ISBN : BSB:BSB10308268

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The American Beaver and His Works by Lewis Henry Morgan Pdf

Howes M802 "Probably the first study of the behavior of a single animal in the mordern sense and certainly the first American work in comparative psychology."--Gach. "..long regarded as a classic on the subject." DAB, Vol. XIII, 185.

Author : Lewis Henry Morgan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387314922

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Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis Henry Morgan Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : John V. Murra
Publisher : Hau
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Andes Region
ISBN : 0997367555

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Reciprocity and Redistribution in Andean Civilizations by John V. Murra Pdf

John V. Murra's Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, originally given in 1969, are the only major study of the Andean "avenue towards civilization." Collected and published for the first time here, they offer a powerful and insistent perspective on the Andean region as one of the few places in which a so-called "pristine civilization" developed. Murra sheds light not only on the way civilization was achieved here--which followed a fundamentally different process than that of Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica--he uses that study to shed new light on the general problems of achieving civilization in any world region. Murra intermixes a study of Andean ecology with an exploration of the ideal of economic self-sufficiency, stressing two foundational socioeconomic forces: reciprocity and redistribution. He shows how both enabled Andean communities to realize direct control of a maximum number of vertically ordered ecological floors and the resources they offered. He famously called this arrangement a "vertical archipelago," a revolutionary model that is still examined and debated almost fifty years after it was first presented in these lecture. Written in a crisp and elegant style and inspired by decades of ethnographic fieldwork, this set of lectures is nothing less than a lost classic, and it will be sure to inspire new generations of anthropologists and historians working in South America and beyond.

Author : Daniel Noah Moses
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826266606

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The Promise of Progress by Daniel Noah Moses Pdf

"A detailed presentation of Lewis Henry Morgan's life from his early work with the Iroquois to his defense of American capitalism to his strange posthumous career among international leftists up to Morgan's influence among today's environmentalists, anarchists, feminists, and other social visionaries"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Thomas R. Trautmann,Karl Sanford Kabelac
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Anthropologists
ISBN : 0871698463

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The Library of Lewis Henry Morgan by Thomas R. Trautmann,Karl Sanford Kabelac Pdf

Author : Lewis Henry Morgan,Herbert Marshall Lloyd
Publisher : New York : Dodd, Mead
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Iroquoian languages
ISBN : PRNC:32101010495248

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League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee Or Iroquois by Lewis Henry Morgan,Herbert Marshall Lloyd Pdf