John Ferguson McLennan took issue with a system that this man developed after finding similarities between the Seneca and Ojibwa.
John Ferguson McLennan took issue with a system that this man developed after finding similarities between the Seneca and Ojibwa. He identified "savagery, barbarism, and civilization" as the three stages of agricultural development, which placed Polynesians in the bottom group because they lacked pottery. He journeyed to Mud Lake in Michigan to research his book The American Beaver and His Works, and his attempt to establish a few basic clusters of kinship terms through the study of American Indians resulted in Systems of Consanguinuity. FTP, name this author of Ancient Society, an old- school anthropologist.
John Ferguson McLennan took issue with a system that this man developed after finding similarities between the Seneca and Ojibwa.
Lewis Henry {Morgan}