ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lewis H. Morgan, Henry James Sumner Maine, Zande People
17 Dec 2018
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Henry maine and lewis henry morgan are often considered the founders of legal anthropology. L. h morgan studied native culture with unprecedented methodological rigour. He was the scholar who developed a lot of the key tools for documenting and analyzing kinship structures which has been valuable to anthropology ever since. Family and kinship is a place where law and culture lives: maine"s theories of how societies evolved in legal structure was darwinist but groundbreaking at the time. He called onto importance of social contracts and noted how they had the ability to be transformed across di erent times of human history. To understand legal order, we must understand the social relations among the members of society in question. We cannot understand law solely in a formal context but study it in a social context. His research was not based on rsthand data but studying second hand knowledge.
