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Ancient Society
Ancient Society
is an 1877 book by the American anthropologist
Lewis H. Morgan
. Building on the data about kinship and social organization presented in his 1871
Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family
, Morgan develops his theory of the three stages of human progress, i.e., from
Savagery
through
Barbarism
to
Civilization
. Contemporary European social theorists such as
Karl Marx
and
Friedrich Engels
were influenced by Morgan's work on social structure and material culture, as shown by Engels'
The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
(1884).
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