| Autor: |
Pfäffli, Lea |
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Historische Anthropologie; Jun2023, Vol. 31 Issue 1, p112-139, 28p |
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In diagrammatics, the diagram is often defined as an instrument for reducing complexity and by the characteristic of iconicity. A historical perspective can contribute to a broader understanding of diagrams and their functions. The US ethnologist Lewis Henry Morgan did not develop his „Diagrams of Consanguinity" inductively based on ethnological data, but worked with a blueprint: schemes of the ars memorativa of Roman law and the late medieval arbor consanguinitatis. These determined the form of his diagrams. The transfer of the kinship diagram from Roman law to ethnology was intertwined with the ethnologist's social status and capitalist upheaval in times of the market revolution – in which Roman antiquity served as a means of self-reflection. Morgan thus used diagrams not as an instrument for reducing complexity but as a means of paying homage to Roman law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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