The Kinship Wars
An Essay on the Prehistory of Social Anthropology
In the later nineteenth century, a number of learned scholars discovered, independently of one another, some basic principles of human kinship organization that had previously gone unrecognized. They noticed the existence of matrilineal descent (reckoning descent and inheritance through the mother rather than the father), exogamy (the necessity of marrying outside ones group), and the principle of kin group property-owning.With evolution the hottest intellectual topic of the times, the scholars viewed their ideas as critical to a general understanding of human social development. They proposed sweeping evolutionary schemes based on their disc…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4808-5487-1
- EAN: 9781480854871
- Produktnummer: 25896715
- Verlag: Archway Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 114 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.6 cm 178 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 178
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