List of Figures

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List of Tables

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction

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Part I:
The Phenomenon of Kinship: Unearthing the Roots of Relational Thinking in 19th-Century Thought

1

Chapter 1:
The Invention of Lewis H. Morgan and the Genesis of Kinship

3

Chapter 2:
Philosophy, Psychology, and Physiology

9

Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Franz Gall, and Johann Spurzheim: Genius and Madness, the Brain and the Mind

9

Chapter 3:
Logic, Semiotics, and Reproduction

23

Augustus De Morgan, Charles Peirce, Francis Galton, and Karl Pearson: Logical Relations, Semiotic Iconicity, and Statistical Correlation

23