Kinship and the Social Order The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan

Name: Kinship and the Social Order The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan
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ISBN: 9780415330091

ISBN-10: 0415330092

ISBN-13: 9780415330091

Edition: 2004 (Reprint)

Authors: Meyer Fortes

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The central argument of this book is that the structuralist theory & method developed for the study of kinship & social organization are the direct descendants of the researches of Lewis Henry Morgan.

Book details

List price: $310.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/30/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Aldine Transaction Introduction



Foreword



Preface



Retrospect



Morgan: The Founding Father



The Line of Succession: From Morgan to Radcliffe-Brown



Morgan and the Analytical Approach



Radcliffe-Brown and the Development of Structural Analysis



Toward the Jural Dimension



Paradigmatic Ethnographical Specimens



A Methodological Excursus



The Kinship Polity



Cognatic Systems and the Politico-Jural Domain



The Ashanti: State and Citizenship



The Lineage in Ashanti



Ashanti Patrilateral Kinship and its Values



Some Issues in Structural Theory



Kinship and the Axiom of Amity



Filiation Reconsidered



Descent and the Corporate Group


Bibliography