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In ‘Ancient Society’, Lewis Henry Morgan outlines a framework for understanding the cultural and social evolution of humanity. He identifies three successive stages—savagery, barbarism, and civilization—demonstrating how social structures, property concepts, and governmental principles develop in parallel across societies. Drawing on a comparative method that examines both ancestral and modern peoples, Morgan argues that similar inventions and discoveries reveal a shared psychic unity among humans. The work explores why certain tribes and nations appear to lag in the march of progress, underscoring the universal patterns that underlie social evolution.
First publish date: January 2000
Genre: History/Ancient History
Authors: Lewis Henry Morgan
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