Lewis Henry Morgan's Comparisons

Reassessing Terminology, Anarchy and Worldview in Indigenous Societies of America, Australia and Highland Middle India
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-317-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 501 g

About 150 years ago Lewis Henry Morgan compared relationship terminologies, societal forms and ideas of property to recognize the interdependence of the three domains. From a new perspective, the book re-examines, confirms and criticizes Morgan’s findings to conclude that reciprocal affinal relations determine most ‘classificatory’ terminologies and regulate many non-state societies, their property notions and their rituals. Apart from references to American and Australian features, such holistic socio-cultural constructs are exemplified by elaborate descriptions of little known contemporary Indigenous societies in Highland Middle India, altogether comprising many millions of members.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pfeffer, Georg

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Life and Work of Lewis Henry Morgan (1818–1881)

Chapter 2. Tools and Types

Chapter 3. Seneca Revisited

Chapter 4. Omaha Skewing Reconsidered

Chapter 5. Highland Middle Indian (HMI) Terminologies

Chapter 6. Schneider, Relatedness, “Malayan”, and General Comparison

Chapter 7. Social Evolution and the Australian Anomaly

Chapter 8. Order in Anarchy: HMI Gentile Organization Compared

Chapter 9. Bridewealth and Gender in Highland Middle India

Chapter 10. The Dark Side of the Moon

Conclusion: For the Record

Glossary

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pfeffer, Georg
Georg Pfeffer (1943-2020) was Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin from 1985 to 2008. He participated in two long-term Orissa Research Projects of the German Research Foundation (DFG) to conduct extended ethnographic fieldwork in several indigenous societies of the Indian provinces Odisha and Jharkhand. He was also part of the group which founded the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) in 1989.

Georg Pfeffer (1943-2020) was Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin from 1985 to 2008. He participated in two long-term Orissa Research Projects of the German Research Foundation (DFG) to conduct extended ethnographic fieldwork in several indigenous societies of the Indian provinces Odisha and Jharkhand. He was also part of the group which founded the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) in 1989.