In this text, Victorian intellectual Lewis Henry Morgan defines three major stages in the cultural and social evolution of mankind. In his introduction, Robin Fox reviews Morgan's thesis in the light of what we have learned in the 20th century.
Modern anthropology would be radically different without this book. Published in 1871, this first major study of kinship, inventive and wide-ranging, created a new field of inquiry in anthropology. Drawing partly upon his own fieldwork among American Indians, anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan examined the kinship systems of over one hundred ...
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
Rich, detailed record of eminent anthropologist's researches among the Indians of Kansas and Nebraska--kinship systems, social organization, customs, etc. Also data on climate, flora and fauna, natural resources, more. Landmark work. 20 illus.
Heat transfer analysis is a problem of major significance in vast range of industrial applcations. Heat conduction, phase change, coupled heat and mass transfer and thermal stress analysis can all pose key engineering problems. The use of numerical techniques to solve such problems is considered essential. Numerous practical engineering problems ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. BEAVER DAMS. Remarkable Beaver District?Number of Beaver Unnis?Other Works? Character of the Region?Beavers now Abundant?Map of Area?Object of Dams?Their ...
Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) was trained as a lawyer, but in the second part of his life he focused his attention on the emerging science of ethnography. Covering areas of North and Central America, Morgan's last book, Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines, was the first to regard a set of problems that is still currently debated: ...
In a previous work I have considered the organization of the American aborigines in gentes phratries and tribes with the functions of each in their social system. From the importance of this organization to a right understanding of their social and governmental life a recapitulation of the principal features of each member of the organic series is ...
Edition: Reprint. Classics in Anthropology
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Classic analysis by early anthropologist, first published in 1881 by government printing office. 319 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, index. footnotes read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Date Published: 1881
Description: VG. No Jacket as Issued. The book is maroon cloth-covered boards in a library binding. The book is ex-lib with a scuff where the number was removed on the spine and an embossed seal for the Kansas Academy of Science on the title page. Colored frontis with tissue guard of a Suni Water Carrier. Numerous black and white illustrations of various Native Americans houses. A great look at the lives of these native groups. NOTE: THESE HEAVY VOLUMES MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE, PLEASE CONTACT SELLER ... read more
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