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From: Dictionary of the Social Sciences
Date: 20020101
Author:Craig Calhoun

Maine, Henry James Sumner (1822–1888) One of the major figures of nineteenth‐century anthropology and an innovator in comparative legal history. His classic study, Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Societies (1861), provided an influential account of the emergence of “progressive,” or modern, societies from primitive ones in terms of the evolution of legal systems. Drawing a line from early primitive groups through Greece, Rome, and modern societies, Maine described a transition from systems based on family groups, status relations, and ...

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