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 Mo
Kinship and the Social Order
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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