Anthropologist's researches among the Indians of Kansas and Nebraska—kinship systems, social organization, climate, flora and fauna, natural resources, more. 20 illus.

Modern anthropology would be radically different without this book. Published in 1871, this first major study of kinship, inventive and wide-ranging, created a new field of ...

"The myth of American Indian 'kings, ' etc., and of classes and private property in the primitive communist society of America, owes its origin to the romanticism, boasting and ...