{"product_id":"systems-of-consanguinity-and-affinity-lewis-henry-morgan-9780803282308","title":"Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family","description":"Modern anthropology would be radically different without this book. Published in 1871, this first major study of kinship, inventive and wide-ranging, created a new field of inquiry in anthropology. Drawing partly upon his own fieldwork among American Indians, anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan examined the kinship systems of over one hundred cultures, probing for similarities and differences in their organization. In his attempt to discover particular types of marriage and descent systems across the globe, Morgan demonstrated the centrality of kinship relations in many cultures. Kinship, it was revealed, was an important key for understanding cultures and could be studied through systematic, scientific means. Anthropologists continue to wrestle with the premises, methodology, and conclusions of \u003ci\u003eSystems of Consanguinity and Affinity\u003c\/i\u003e. Scholars such as W. H. R. Rivers, Robert Lowie, Meyer Fortes, Fred Eggan, and Claude L騅i-Strauss have acknowledged their intellectual debt to this study; those less sympathetic to Morgan's treatment of kinship nonetheless do not question its historical significance and impact on the development of modern anthropology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lewis Henry Morgan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803282303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803282308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.94h x 8.44w x 1.23d","brand":"Lewis Henry Morgan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981252624639,"sku":"9780803282308","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_33591846-019a-42f4-9991-ffe5057e8480.jpg?v=1683254498","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/systems-of-consanguinity-and-affinity-lewis-henry-morgan-9780803282308","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}