Compare the Evolutionism of Morgan (The primitive society) with that of Frazer (the branch of gold).?

Question

Compare the Evolutionism of Morgan (The primitive society) with that of Frazer (the branch of gold).?

Answer 1

Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881), American anthropologist. A study on the existing systems of kinship between the different indigenous groups induced to him anywhere in the world to realise an exhaustive investigation on the same subject, but, that it gave rise to his monumental descriptive work Systems of consanguinity and affinity of the human family (1870). In its more well-known work, the primitive society (1877), a study of the social evolution, Morgan raised its theory (whose demonstration later originated a great controversy between the scholars) according to which the human family and the human systems of emparejamiento have arisen throughout concrete and successive stages from promiscuity, marriage in group, polygamy and monogamia.

The work of Frazer includes a very ample field of the anthropological investigation, but it was especially interested in the study of myths and the religion. Its more famous book is the branch sea bream (1890), a study of old cults, rites and myths and their parallelism with the primitive Christianity. This work, that laid the foundations the fame of distinguished Frazer like academic, was extended to 13 volumes in 1915. It wrote other many works, among them Totemismo and exogamia (1910), the magical origins of the royalty (1920), Myths on the origin of the fire (1930), the fear to the death in the primitive religions (1933-1936).

Answer 2

Morgan was a 19th Century, Biological and Social Evolutionist, while Frazer was the last Victorian Evolutionist!