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Morgan, Lewis Henry

Morgan, Lewis Henry (1818-1881), was an American anthropologist known for his studies of American Indians and others. Morgan observed the ways American Indians living in New York classified relatives using different kinship terms. He is regarded as a founder of the scientific study of kinship for his book Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (1871). Unlike other anthropologists of his time, Morgan learned many of his facts by traveling and by observing living Indians.

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