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"This book, first published in 1877, is believed to be the first modern inquiry into social evolution. Receiving much attention from Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Ancient Society made a great impact on historians of the last century and influenced general anthropology."--Lore and Language (England)
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780674865648 |
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Publisher: | Harvard |
Publication date: | 10/01/2013 |
Series: | John Harvard Library Series , #67 |
Edition description: | Reprint 2014 ed. |
Pages: | 516 |
Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.13(d) |
About the Author
Lewis Henry Morgan (November 21, 1818 - December 17, 1881) was a pioneering American anthropologist and social theorist who worked as a railroad lawyer. He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure, his theories of social evolution, and his ethnography of the Iroquois. Interested in what holds societies together, he proposed the concept that the earliest human domestic institution was the matrilineal clan, not the patriarchal family.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Transaction Edition | xv | |
Preface | lv | |
Part I. | Growth of Intelligence Through Inventions and Discoveries | |
Chapter I. | Ethnical Periods | 3 |
Progress of Mankind from the Bottom of the Scale | ||
Illustrated by Inventions, Discoveries and Institutions | ||
Two Plans of Government | ||
One Gentile and Social, giving a Society (Societas); the other Political, giving a State (Civitas) | ||
The former founded upon Persons and Gentilism; the Latter upon Territory and Property | ||
The First, the Plan of Government of Ancient Society | ||
The Second, that of Modern or Civilized Society | ||
Uniformity of Human Experience | ||
Proposed Ethnical Periods | ||
I. | Lower Status of Savagery | |
II. | Middle Status of Savagery | |
III. | Upper Status of Savagery | |
IV. | Lower Status of Barbarism | |
V. | Middle Status of Barbarism | |
VI. | Upper Status of Barbarism | |
VII. | Status of Civilization | |
Chapter II. | Arts of Subsistence | 19 |
Supremacy of Mankind over the Earth | ||
Control over Subsistence the Condition | ||
Mankind alone gained that Control | ||
Successive Arts of Subsistence | ||
I. | Natural Subsistence | |
II. | Fish Subsistence | |
III. | Farinaceous Subsistence | |
IV. | Meat and Milk Subsistence | |
V. | Unlimited Subsistence through Field Agriculture | |
Long Intervals of Time between them | ||
Chapter III. | Ratio of Human Progress | 29 |
Retrospect on the Lines of Human Progress | ||
Principal Contributions of Modern Civilization | ||
Of Ancient Civilization | ||
Of Later Period of Barbarism | ||
Of Middle Period | ||
Of Older Period | ||
Of Period of Savagery | ||
Humble Condition of Primitive Man | ||
Human Progress in a Geometrical Ratio | ||
Relative Length of Ethnical Periods | ||
Appearance of Semitic and Aryan Families | ||
Part II. | Growth of the Idea of Government | |
Chapter I. | Organization of Society Upon the Basis of Sex | 49 |
Australian Classes | ||
Organized upon Sex | ||
Archaic Character of the Organization | ||
Australian Gentes | ||
The Eight Classes | ||
Rule of Marriage | ||
Descent in the Female Line | ||
Stupendous Conjugal System | ||
Two Male and Two Female Classes in each Gens | ||
Innovations upon the Classes | ||
Gens still Rudimentary | ||
Chapter II. | The Iroquois Gens | 62 |
The Gentile Organization | ||
Its Wide Prevalence | ||
Definition of a Gens | ||
Descent in the Female Line the Archaic Rule | ||
Rights, Privileges and Obligations of Members of a Gens | ||
Right of Electing and Deposing its Sachem and Chiefs | ||
Obligation not to marry in the Gens | ||
Mutual Rights of Inheritance of the Property of deceased Members | ||
Reciprocal Obligations of Help, Defense and Redress of Injuries | ||
Right of Naming its Members | ||
Right of Adopting Strangers into the Gens | ||
Common Religious Rites, Query | ||
A Common Burial Place | ||
Council of the Gens | ||
Gentes named after Animals | ||
Number of Persons in a Gens | ||
Chapter III. | The Iroquois Phratry | 88 |
Definition of a Phratry | ||
Kindred Gentes Reunited in a Higher Organization | ||
Phratry of the Iroquois Tribes | ||
Its Composition | ||
Its Uses and Functions | ||
Social and Religious | ||
Illustrations | ||
The Analogue of the Grecian Phratry; but in its Archaic Form | ||
Phratries of the Choctas | ||
Of the Chickasas | ||
Of the Mohegans | ||
Of the Thlinkeets | ||
Their Probable Universality in the Tribes of the American Aborigines | ||
Chapter IV. | The Iroquois Tribe | 102 |
The Tribe as an Organization | ||
Composed of Gentes Speaking the same Dialect | ||
Separation in Area led to Divergence of Speech, and Segmentation | ||
The Tribe a Natural Growth | ||
Illustrations | ||
Attributes of a Tribe | ||
A Territory and Name | ||
An Exclusive Dialect | ||
The Right to Invest and Depose its Sachems and Chiefs | ||
A Religious Faith and Worship | ||
A Council of Chiefs | ||
A Head-Chief of Tribe in some Instances | ||
Three successive Forms of Gentile Government | ||
1 | A Government of One Power | |
2 | Of Two Powers | |
3 | Of Three Powers | |
Chapter V. | The Iroquois Confederacy | 122 |
Confederacies Natural Growths | ||
Founded upon Common Gentes, and a Common Language | ||
The Iroquois Tribes | ||
Their Settlement in New York | ||
Formation of the Confederacy | ||
Its Structure and Principles | ||
Fifty Sachemships Created | ||
Made Hereditary in certain Gentes | ||
Number assigned to each Tribe | ||
These Sachems formed the Council of the Confederacy | ||
The Civil Council | ||
Its Mode of Transacting Business | ||
Unanimity Necessary to its Action | ||
The Mourning Council | ||
Mode of Raising up Sachems | ||
General Military Commanders | ||
This Office the Germ of that of a Chief Executive Magistrate | ||
Intellectual Capacity of the Iroquois | ||
Chapter VI. | Gentes in Other Tribes of the Ganowanian Family | 151 |
Divisions of American Aborigines | ||
Gentes in Indian Tribes; with their Rules of Descent and Inheritance | ||
I. | Hodenosaunian Tribes | |
II. | Dakotian | |
III. | Gulf | |
IV. | Pawnee | |
V. | Algonkin | |
VI. | Athapasco-Apache | |
VII. | Tribes of North-west Coast | |
Eskimos, a Distinct Family | ||
VIII. | Salish, Sahaptin, and Kootenay Tribes | |
IX. | Shoshonee | |
X. | Village Indians of New Mexico, Mexico and Central America | |
XI. | South American Indian Tribes | |
Probable Universality of the Organization in Gentes in the Ganowanian Family | ||
Chapter VII. | The Aztec Confederacy | 186 |
Misconception of Aztec Society | ||
Condition of Advancement | ||
Nahuatlac Tribes | ||
Their Settlement in Mexico | ||
Pueblo of Mexico founded, A.D. 1325 | ||
Aztec Confederacy established, A.D. 1426 | ||
Extent of Territorial Domination | ||
Probable Number of the People | ||
Whether or not the Aztecs were organized in Gentes and Phratries | ||
The Council of Chiefs | ||
Its probable Functions | ||
Office held by Montezuma | ||
Elective in Tenure | ||
Deposition of Montezuma | ||
Probable Functions of the Office | ||
Aztec Institutions essentially Democratical | ||
The Government a Military Democracy | ||
Chapter VIII. | The Grecian Gens | 215 |
Early Condition of Grecian Tribes | ||
Organized into Gentes | ||
Changes in the Character of the Gens | ||
Necessity for a Political System | ||
Problem to be Solved | ||
The Formation of a State | ||
Grote's Description of the Grecian Gentes | ||
Of their Phratries and Tribes | ||
Rights, Privileges and Obligations of the Members of the Gens | ||
Similar to those of the Iroquois Gens | ||
The Office of Chief of the Gens | ||
Whether Elective or Hereditary | ||
The Gens the Basis of the Social System | ||
Antiquity of the Gentile Lineage | ||
Inheritance of Property | ||
Archaic and Final Rule | ||
Relationships between the Members of a Gens | ||
The Gens the Center of Social and Religious Influence | ||
Chapter IX. | The Grecian Phratry, Tribe and Nation | 235 |
The Athenian Phratry | ||
How Formed | ||
Definition of Dikaearchus | ||
Objects chiefly Religious | ||
The Phratriarch | ||
The Tribe | ||
Composed of Three Phratries | ||
The Phylo Basileus | ||
The Nation | ||
Composed of Four Tribes | ||
Boule, or Council of Chiefs | ||
Agora, or Assembly of the People | ||
The Basileus | ||
Tenure of the Office | ||
Military and Priestly Functions | ||
Civil Functions not shown | ||
Governments of the Heroic Age, Military Democracies | ||
Aristotle's Definition of a Basileus | ||
Later Athenian Democracy | ||
Inherited from the Gentes | ||
Its Powerful Influence upon Athenian Development | ||
Chapter X. | The Institution of Grecian Political Society | 256 |
Failure of the Gentes as a Basis of Government | ||
Legislation of Theseus | ||
Attempted Substitution of Classes | ||
Its Failure | ||
Abolition of the Office of Basileus | ||
The Archonship | ||
Naucraries and Trittyes | ||
Legislation of Solon | ||
The Property Classes | ||
Partial Transfer of Civil Power from the Gentes to the Classes | ||
Persons unattached to any Gens | ||
Made Citizens | ||
The Senate | ||
The Ecclesia | ||
Political Society partially attained | ||
Legislation of Cleisthenes | ||
Institution of Political Society | ||
The Attic Deme or Township | ||
Its Organization and Powers | ||
Its Local Self-government | ||
The Local Tribe or District | ||
The Attic Commonwealth | ||
Athenian Democracy | ||
Chapter XI. | The Roman Gens | 277 |
Italian Tribes Organized in Gentes | ||
Founding of Rome | ||
Tribes Organized into a Military Democracy | ||
The Roman Gens | ||
Definition of a Gentilis by Cicero | ||
By Festus | ||
By Varro | ||
Descent in Male Line | ||
Marrying out of the Gens | ||
Rights, Privileges and Obligations of the Members of a Gens | ||
Democratic Constitution of Ancient Latin Society | ||
Number of Persons in a Gens | ||
Chapter XII. | The Roman Curia, Tribe and Populus | 300 |
Roman Gentile Society | ||
Four Stages of Organization | ||
1. | The Gens | |
2. | The Curia, consisting of TenGentes | |
3. | The Tribe, composed of Ten Curiae | |
4. | The Populus Romanus, composed of Three Tribes | |
Numerical Proportions | ||
How Produced | ||
Concentration of Gentes at Rome | ||
The Roman Senate | ||
Its Functions | ||
The Assembly of the People | ||
Its Powers | ||
The People Sovereign | ||
Office of Military Commander (Rex) | ||
Its Powers and Functions | ||
Roman Gentile Institutions essentially Democratical | ||
Chapter XIII. | The Institution of Roman Political Society | 323 |
The Populus | ||
The Plebeians | ||
The Clients | ||
The Patricians | ||
Limits of the Order | ||
Legislation of Servius Tullius | ||
Institution of Property Classes | ||
Of the Centuries | ||
Unequal Suffrage | ||
Comitia Centuriata | ||
Supersedes Comitia Curiata | ||
Classes supersede the Gentes | ||
The Census | ||
Plebeians made Citizens | ||
Institution of City Wards | ||
Of Country Townships |
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