One of this man's ethnographic works was partially based on his extensive correspondence with Ely S. Parker.
One of this man's ethnographic works was partially based on his extensive correspondence with Ely S. Parker. This anthropologist's arguments about societal advancement being driven by technology were incorporated into Friedrich Engels' The Origins of Family, Private Property, and the State. This thinker cited contemporary examples of each stage of society except (*) "lower savagery" in a work that argued that humans culturally evolved from savagery to barbarism to civilization. In another work, this man asserted that matriarchal structures had initially been the norm among human families and observed the "bifurcate merging" that erased the distinction between lineal and collateral lines of Iroquois families. For 10 points, name this American anthropologist who compared kinship by blood and marriage in Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family.
One of this man's ethnographic works was partially based on his extensive correspondence with Ely S. Parker.
Lewis Henry Morgan