TY - BOOK AU - Eggan,Fred,1906- TI - Essays in social anthropology and ethnology SN - 0916256006 PY - 1975/// CY - University of Chicago, Chicago PB - Dept. of Anthropology KW - Ethnology N1 - Includes bibliographies; Introduction.--Kinship and social organization: The Maya kinship system and cross-cousin marriage. The Cheyenne and Arapaho kinship system. Historical changes in the Choctaw kinship system. The Hopi and the lineage principle. Northern woodland ethnology.--Method and theory: Culture history derived from the study of living peoples. Some problems in the study of food and nutrition (with M. Pijoan). The ethnological cultures and their archeological backgrounds. Social anthropology and the method of controlled comparison. Social anthropology and the educational system. Lewis H. Morgan in kinship perspective. Cultural drift and social change. Alliance and descent in a Western Pueblo society. Lewis H. Morgan and the future of the American Indian. From history to myth: a Hopi example. Lewis Henry Morgan's systems: a reevaluation ER -