Chapter 4:
Religion, Hermeneutics, and Evolution

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Charles Darwin, and Charles Lyell: Biology and Descent, Geology and Design

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Friedrich Schleiermacher, Max Müller, Joseph Smith, and Lewis H. Morgan: Divinity, Humanity, and Animality

49

Chapter 5:
Law, Grammar, and Speech

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John McLennan, Henry Maine, Gustav von Ewers, and Sergei Soloviev: Kinship, Kingship, and Custom

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Johann Herder, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Buschmann, Samuel Morton, Adolf Bastian, and Friedrich Müller: Nation, Race, Child Language, and Grammatical Gender

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Friedrich von Schlegel, Fedor Buslaev, Pavel Lavrovsky, and Berthold Delbrück: Linguistic Kinship, Mother Tongue, and Etymological Roots

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Chapter 6:
Anthropology, Law, Linguistics, Psychology, and Biology: Kinship Studies in the 20th Century

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Anthropology

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The Evolutionist Heritage

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Diffusionism

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Boasian Formalism

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Structural Functionalism and Structuralism

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Historical Materialism

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