Lewis Henry MorganThinkers

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Cultural evolution is the idea that culture progressed from savagery, through barbarism, and into civilization.

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Kinship is a concern first with structure, then with function, and then with culture.

Monogamy is a result of the historical growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children. The institution served to ensure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair.

Property is bondage when centralized in the hands of a few. In these situations the millions fall under bondage to property, a bondage as absolute and deplorable as if their limbs were covered with manacles.

Woman is such that their subordination is attributable to the rise of capitalism.