ABSTRACT
I turn back now to consider some of the conceptual and theoretical issues that were sidestepped by the preceding digression. This is not the place to attempt to review all the problems of current theoretical concern in the study of kinship and social organization that have come up in the course of this inquiry, 1 but there are one or two subjects that have not only been central to this inquiry but have also, as we have seen, been central to its theme from Morgan to our own day. It is to some further consideration of these topics that I shall limit myself.
