Ancient Society defines three major stages in the cultural and social evolution of mankind. Morgan describes how savages, advancing by definite steps, attained the higher condition of barbarism.
Lewis Henry Morgan studied the American Indian way of life and collected an enormous amount of factual material on the history of primitive-communal society.
Ancient Society defines three major stages in the cultural and social evolution of mankind. Morgan describes how savages, advancing by definite steps, attained the higher condition of barbarism.
Ancient Society: Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery Through Barbarism to Civilization
Although many of Morgan's points are speculative and based purely off of sources as diverse and disparate as Christian missionary accounts of tribes and histories dating to antiquity, his is the among the first works of anthropology which ...
Ancient Society: Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, Through Barbarism to Civilization
Lewis Henry Morgan studied the American Indian way of life and collected an enormous amount of factual material on the history of primitive-communal society.
Ancient Society: Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery Through Barbarism to Civilization
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Although many of Morgan's points are speculative and based purely off of sources as diverse and disparate as Christian missionary accounts of tribes and histories dating to antiquity, his is the among the first works of anthropology which ...
Ancient Society
"[...] I. Lower Status of Savagery.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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