Lewis Henry Morgan and the invention of kinship
By: Thomas R. Trautmann ; with a new introduction and appendices by the author.
Edition: new ed.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780803260061
Subjects: Morgan, Lewis Henry, -- 1818-1881.; Kinship.; Anthropology -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-354) and index.
Table of contents: value: Kinship and its inventors; value: Scale of mind, scale of history; value: A lawyer among the Iroquois; value: Philology in its relations to ethnology; value: Generalizing Iroquois; value: Nature and art; value: Conjectural history; value: Kinship's other inventors; value: Of time and ethnology; value: Contributions to knowledge; value: Appendix 1. The revolution in ethnological time; value: Appendix 2. India and the study of kinship terminologies; value: Appendix 3. The whole history of kinship terminologies in three chapters : before Morgan, Morgan, and after Morgan.