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This study of kinship relations, economics, and household organization among the modern Longhouse Iroquois, located in Ontario, Canada, fills a crucial gap in our knowledge of modern Iroquoian culture and history and provides a treasury of information about Longhouse social organization. Founded by nearly two thousand Iroquois allies of the British crown in 1784, the Six Nations Reserve became the first Iroquoian community to contain members of all five tribes of the original Iroquois Confederacy. By the mid-twentieth century, the reserve had divided along the lines of politics and religion into two distinct social groups, those who practiced Christianity and the followers of the more traditional Longhouse religion. In the late 1950s, Merlin G. Myers conducted fieldwork among these traditionalists. He collected data on household structure and kinship relations from 150 families and interpreted his findings within the context of structural-functional anthropology, providing a rare example of British anthropological theory from this time applied to a North American Native community. His work also features valuable Cayuga linguistic contributions.

Matrilineal kinship --- Cayuga Indians --- Gueugwehono Indians --- Kayohkhó·nỏ Indians --- Kayokwehó·nỏ Indians --- Indians of North America --- Iroquois Indians --- Matrilineal descent --- Matriliny --- Unilineal descent (Kinship) --- Matriarchy --- Social life and customs. --- Dwellings --- Kinship --- Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40 (Ont.) --- Six Nations Indian Reservation (Ont.) --- Six Nations of the Grand River Indians Reservation (Ont.) --- Six Nations of the Grand River Indians Reserve No. 40 (Ont.) --- History.

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Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate the patriarchal family model as a higher stage of human development. Eller tells the stories these men told, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and provides the necessary context for understanding how feminists of the 1970's and 1980's embraced as historical "fact" a discredited nineteenth-century idea.

Feminist theory. --- Matriarchy. --- Matrilineal kinship. --- Patriarchy. --- Religion, Prehistoric. --- Women, Prehistoric. --- Women, Prehistoric --- Religion, Prehistoric --- Matriarchy --- Matrilineal kinship --- Patriarchy --- Feminist theory --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Prehistoric Anthropology --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Androcracy --- Patriarchal families --- Fathers --- Families --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Patrilineal kinship --- Matrilineal descent --- Matriliny --- Unilineal descent (Kinship) --- Gynaecocracy --- Gynarchy --- Gynecocracy --- Gynocracy --- Matriarchal families --- Women --- Prehistoric religion --- Prehistoric women --- Prehistoric peoples --- Philosophy --- Femmes préhistoriques --- Religion préhistorique --- Matriarcat --- Filiation matrilinéaire --- Patriarcat (Sociologie) --- Théorie féministe