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kinship: Facts & Related Content
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| Also Known As | kinsfolk • kin |
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Key People
Lewis Henry Morgan
American anthropologist
Richard Thurnwald
German ethnologist
Maurice Freedman
British anthropologist
John Ferguson McLennan
Scottish lawyer and ethnologist
Edward W. Gifford
American anthropologist
W. H. R. Rivers
British anthropologist
Meyer Fortes
British anthropologist