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Lewis Henry Morgan

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lewis Henry Morgan 1818-81, American anthropologist, b. Aurora, N.Y., grad. Union College, Schenectady, 1840. Practicing as a lawyer, he became interested in the Native Americans of his locality, and in 1847 he was made an adopted member of the Seneca tribe. His League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee or Iroquois (1851, repr. 1954) is unexcelled among early descriptive reports. Morgan was interested in social organization, and developed a theory correlating kinship terminologies with forms of marriage and rules of descent, holding that matriarchal patterns had originally prevailed over all other kinship... Read more
Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan The American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) wrote one of the first...principles of cultural evolution. Lewis Henry Morgan was born on Nov. 21, 1818, near Aurora... Read more
Morgan, Lewis Henry
Morgan, Lewis Henry (1818–1881), anthropologist.A Rochester, New York, lawyer, Lewis Henry Morgan played a leading role in establishing...141–54. Thomas R. Trautmann , Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship , 1987... Read more

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