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Preface to the Fourth Edition, 1891
A survey of forty years of scholarship on the primeval family, from Bachofen's discovery of mother-right through McLennan's rival scheme to Morgan's Ancient Society — and a polemic against the English school that borrowed Morgan's results while silencing his name.
Bachofen and the discovery of mother-rightMcLennan's exogamy scheme and its collapseMorgan's Ancient Society as the turning pointThe English prehistoric school's silence