Lewis H. Morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan was a pioneering American anthropologist and social theorist who worked as a railroad lawyer. He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure, his theories of social evolution, and his ethnography of the Iroquois. Interested in what holds societies together, he proposed the concept that the earliest human domestic institution was the matrilineal clan, not the patriarchal family.

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General Info

Male

Date of Birth

November 21st, 1818

Age

207

Birth Place

United States of America

Date of Death

December 17th, 1881

Died Aged