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Synopsis
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER JJ. ARTS OF SUBSISTENCE. OF MANKIND OVER TH! ! sK 1II. CONTROL OVF.R SUBSISTENCE :he Condition. Mankind Alone Gain to That Control Successive Arts Op Subsistence I. Natural Subsistence; II. Fish Subsistence; HI. Farinaceous Subsistence; IV. Meat And Milk Subsistence; V. UnlimIted Subsistence Through Field Agriculture. Long Intervals Of Tim Utwken Them. The important fact that mankind commenced at the bottom of the scale and worked up, is revealed in in expressive manner by their successive arts of subsistence. Upon their skill in this direction, the whole question of human supremacy on the earth depended. Mankind are the only beings who may be said to have gained an absolute control over the production of food; which at the outset they did not possess above other animals. Without enlarging the basis of subsistence, mankind could not have propagated themselves into other areas not possessing the same kinds of food, and ultimately over the whole surface of the earth; and lastly, without obtaining an absolute control over both its variety and amount, they could not have multiplied into populous nations. It is accordingly probable that the great epochs of human progress have been identified, more or less directly, with the enlargement of the sources of subsistence. We are able to distinguish five of these sources of human food, created by what may be called as many successive arts, one superadded to the other, and brought out at long separated intervals of time. The first two originated in the period ofsavagery, and the last three, in the period of barbarism. They are the following, stated in the order of their appearance: I. Natural Subsistence upon Fruits and Roots on a Restricted Habitat. This proposition carries us back to the strictly primitive period...
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Review
"This book, first published in 1877, is believed to be the first modern inquiry into social evolution. Receiving much attention from Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Ancient Society made a great impact on historians of the last century and influenced general anthropology."--Lore and Language (England)
About the Author
Lewis Henry Morgan (November 21, 1818 – December 17, 1881) 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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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0217777619
- ISBN 13 9780217777612
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages406
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