Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester, New York, lawyer and pioneering anthropologist, was the leading American contributor of his generation to the social sciences. Among the classic works whose conjunction in the 1860s gave modern anthropology its shape, Morgan's massive and technical Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family was decisive. Thomas R. Trautmann offers a new interpretation of the genesis of "kinship" and of the role it played in late nineteenth-century intellectual history. This Bison Books edition features a new introduction and appendices by the author.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-07-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:9780803260061

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Thomas R. Trautmann is a professor of history and anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of several books, including Dravidian Kinship, Aryans and British India, The Aryan Debate, and Languages and Nations: The Dravidian Proof in Colonial Madras.

Recensioner i media

"Trautmann's study is an important contribution to understanding the inception of modern anthropology and, more generally, to understanding the development of contemporary conceptions of human history and culture."—Martin Ottenheimer, Choice "Morgan's methods and assumptions—especially his emphases on kin terms and on their genealogical referents—have informed all subsequent anthropology down to the present day. . . . [Trautmann] provides a fascinating insight into one of the founding texts on modern anthropology."—Anthony Good, Times Literary Supplement "Trautmann writes elegantly, persuasively, and often wittily, and his book makes fine reading."—C. J. Fuller, Man

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Kinship and Its Inventors2. Scale of Mind, Scale of History3. A Lawyer among the Iroquois4. Philology in Its Relations to Ethnology5. Generalizing Iroquois6. Nature and Art7. Conjectural History8. Kinship's Other Inventors9. Of Time and Ethnology10. Contributions to KnowledgeAppendix 1: The Revolution in Ethnological TimeAppendix 2: India and the Study of Kinship TerminologiesAppendix 3: The Whole History of Kinship Terminologies in Three Chapters: Before Morgan, Morgan, and After MorganBibliographyIndex