ANTH 3690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lewis H. Morgan, Sociocultural Evolution, Morgan Morgan
27 Sep 2018
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Evolution: in the realm of culture or biology, the transformation of one form into another. All societies evolved through the same stages and were progressing toward civilization. Victorian society = civilization at the highest (but will be surpassed) Maybe people were at victorian society but somehow became. Comparative method: use of extant primitive peoples to represent extinct primitive peoples, as in classical cultural evolutionism. Psychic unity of humankind/mankind: the doctrine that all peoples have the same fundamental capacity for change. We have limited opportunities in what we can create. Fascinated by iroquois, part of the league of the iroquois fraternity order which tried to recreate iroquois practices. Started to press court cases to help the iroquois in the colonial era. Worked with ely s. parker (1828-1895), his research assistant. Trace the evolution of human society from primeval times to the victorian. Modern state: founded upon notions of territory and property rather than kinship than kinship.
