Ancient Society

About this eBook

Author

Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881

Title

Ancient society : or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilization

Credits

E-text prepared by Julie Miller, Turgut Dincer, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( archive.org/details/americana)

Language

English

LoC Class

JC: Political science: Political theory

Subject

Political anthropology

Category

Text

eBook-No.

45950

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45950

Release Date

June 13, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Ancient Society
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
4. 4.PART I. - GROWTH OF INTELLIGENCE THROUGH INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES. — CHAPTER I. - ETHNICAL PERIODS. — CHAPTER II. - ARTS OF SUBSISTENCE. — CHAPTER III. - RATIO OF HUMAN PROGRESS.
5. 5.PART II. - GROWTH OF THE IDEA OF GOVERNMENT. — CHAPTER I. - ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY UPON THE BASIS OF SEX. — CHAPTER II. - THE IROQUOIS GENS. — CHAPTER III. - THE IROQUOIS PHRATRY. — CHAPTER IV. - THE IROQUOIS TRIBE. — CHAPTER V. - THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY. — CHAPTER VI. - GENTES IN OTHER TRIBES OF THE GANOWÁNIAN FAMILY. — CHAPTER VII. - THE AZTEC CONFEDERACY. — CHAPTER VIII. - THE GRECIAN GENS. — CHAPTER IX. - THE GRECIAN PHRATRY, TRIBE AND NATION. — CHAPTER X. - THE INSTITUTION OF GRECIAN POLITICAL SOCIETY. — CHAPTER XI. - THE ROMAN GENS. — CHAPTER XII. - THE ROMAN CURIA, TRIBE AND POPULUS. — CHAPTER XIII. - THE INSTITUTION OF ROMAN POLITICAL SOCIETY. — CHAPTER XIV. - CHANGE OF DESCENT FROM THE FEMALE TO THE MALE LINE. — CHAPTER XV. - GENTES IN OTHER TRIBES OF THE HUMAN FAMILY.
6. 6.PART III. - GROWTH OF THE IDEA OF THE FAMILY. — CHAPTER I. - THE ANCIENT FAMILY. — CHAPTER II. - THE CONSANGUINE FAMILY. — CHAPTER III. - THE PUNALUAN FAMILY. — CHAPTER IV. - THE SYNDYASMIAN AND THE PATRIARCHAL FAMILIES. — CHAPTER V. - THE MONOGAMIAN FAMILY. — CHAPTER VI. - SEQUENCE OF INSTITUTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE FAMILY. — NOTE. - MR. J. F. McLENNAN’S “PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE.”
7. 7.PART IV. - GROWTH OF THE IDEA OF PROPERTY. — CHAPTER I. - THE THREE RULES OF INHERITANCE. — CHAPTER II. - THE THREE RULES OF INHERITANCE—CONTINUED.
8. 8.FOOTNOTES.
9. 9.INDEX.

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