Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester New York lawyer and pioneering anthropologist was the leading American contributor of his generation to the social sciences. Among the classic works whose conjunction in the 1860s gave modern anthropology its shape Morgana's massive and technical Systems of Consanguin[...]
Lewis Henry Morgan studied the American Indian way of life and collected an enormous amount of factual material on the history of primitive-communal society. All the conclusions he draws are based on these facts; where he lacks them, he reasons back on the basis of the data available to him. He dete[...]