Lewis Henry Morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan appears in 178.母权论：伟大的错误or深刻的洞见？母权社会存在过吗？ as part of the 19th-century anthropology and social-evolution context around Johann Jakob Bachofen’s [[MotherRight|《母权论》 / Mother Right]]. The episode groups Bachofen and Morgan as figures who challenged the idea that patriarchal family order was humanity’s original and only form.

The source uses Morgan mainly as intellectual context rather than as a detailed subject. His relevance is that mother-line descent and kinship organization became thinkable as historical institutions, helping later debates move beyond Henry Maine’s patriarchal-eternity frame.

Connections

• Johann Jakob Bachofen and [[MotherRight|《母权论》 / Mother Right]] - adjacent 19th-century source cluster.
• Friedrich Engels - later figure influenced by the Bachofen/Morgan line in the episode’s account.
• Kinship Power Distinction - concept that keeps kinship descent separate from political matriarchy.