Lewis Henry Morgan
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Morgan · مورجن
in the texts
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The American social theorist whose book on ancient social organisation is invoked as having proved that endogamy is compatible with mother-right, thereby undercutting McLennan's exogamy-based account.
Moreover McLennan's doctrine of the origin of the family did not long delay in falling by what the critics wrote upon it, and especially Morgan, the American scholar, author of the book The Ordering of Society among the Ancients, who demonstrated that in-marriage does not conflict with mother-right.