Final thoughts This series has sought to shed a historical materialist spotlight on the human social/sexual relationship usually referred to…
Social tensions facilitate transition from matrilineal clan to patriarchy Lewis Henry Morgan used the Darwinian concept of “natural selection” to…
From matrilineal clan to patriarchy, polygyny in transitional societies The transition to sedentary life and agricultural production was a process…
Women and the struggle for human sociality For anthropologists who subscribe to an evolutionary materialist approach to human origins, the…
The significance of ‘classification kinship’ In this installment, we deal with Lewis Henry Morgan’s crucial “classification kinship” discovery. Classificatory kinship…