Ancient Society
Contributors: Robin Fox (Introduction)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: September 25, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780765806918
Subjects: Evolution; Social & cultural anthropology; Social history; Social Science; Primitive Society; History - General History; Sociology - General; Sociology; Social evolution; Ancient - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Political anthropology; Social structure
Description: "Ancient Society defines three major stages in the cultural and social evolution of mankind. Morgan describes how savages, advancing by definite steps, attained the higher condition of barbarism. He then explores how barbarians, by similar progressive advancement, finally attained civilization. Finally he discusses why other tribes and nations have been left behind in the race of progress. Inventions and discoveries show the similarity of human wants at the same stages of advancement, thus demonstrating the psychic unity of mankind. The idea of property - now an obsession in civilized society - underwent a similar process of growth and development, as did the principles of government. By the "comparative method" of using existing and historical societies as examples of previous stages, the history of human progress could be reconstructed. These parallel lines along the pathways of human progress form the principal subjects of discussion in Ancient Society."--BOOK JACKET.