ABSTRACT
Lewis Morgan, one of the great founders of anthropology through his studies of Native Americans, even dated the division between ancient and modem society to that time. He reasoned that before the Greeks social organisation was based not on territory and residence, but on kinship - who was related to whom. 1 In our time we tend to associate modernity with the territorial nation-state which developed after the sixteenth century in Europe. But its social and political theory drew its inspiration from the Greeks.
