Lewis H. Morgan
American anthropologist (1818–1881)
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United StatesHe argued that the first human family wasn't patriarchal — it was a matrilineal clan. That one claim, plus his fieldwork among the Iroquois, made him the only American social theorist cited by Marx, Darwin, and Freud alike.
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Lewis Henry Morgan was born November 21, 1818, and worked as a railroad lawyer while pursuing anthropology on the side. His ethnography of the Iroquois and his theories on kinship — particularly the idea that matrilineal clans, not patriarchal families, were humanity's first domestic structure — caught the attention of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who saw in his work a material basis for social evolution. His writing on technology and progress also drew Darwin and Freud. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, he served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Sc…
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