Kinship and the Social Order.: The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan

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Routledge, 5 nov 2013 - 368 pagine

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.

 

Sommario

Morgan The Founding Father
3
The Line of Succession From Morgan to RadcliffeBrown
18
Morgan and the Analytical Approach
31
RadcliffeBrown and the Development of Structural Analysis
42
Toward the Jural Dimension
60
A Methodological Excursus
87
The Kinship Polity
101
Cognatic Systems and the PoliticoJural Domain
122
The Lineage in Ashanti
154
Ashanti Patrilateral Kinship and its Values
191
Kinship and the Axiom of Amity
219
Filiation Reconsidered
250
Descent and the Corporate Group
276
Bibliography
311
Index
335
Copyright

The Ashanti State and Citizenship
138

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