Mr. McLennan
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
John Ferguson McLennan
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Scholar credited with the terms 'exogamy' and 'endogamy' and author of Primitive Marriage.
McLennan ‘exogamy’ and ‘endogamy’ chiefly for the purpose of calling attention to the manifold and surprising fictions by which an inherited sense of the advantage of exogamy and of the disadvantage of close intermarriage is reconciled with the doctrine of the Eastern Church on the point.
McLennan’s extremely convenient term) exogamous.
McLennan (in his ‘Primitive Marriage’) and of Mr.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Scholar cited as author of Primitive Marriage.
McLennan’s most original work on Primitive Marriage.