Note 18 — Chapter I · THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION (continued 2)

The classificatory system of relationship was first studied and named by Lewis H. Morgan, in Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1871. The subject is also discussed in the same author’s Ancient Society. Although there has been a good deal of attention paid to the systems of relationship of savage tribes since the time of Morgan, there is no general work on the subject that supersedes these two books. ↑