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 It's in these innovative aspects of Morgan's thought one can find what others wanted to retain. Morgan's distinction between societies and civitas became important for [[Meyer Fortes]]'s theory of kinship as a relationship based on an "axiom of amity." In Fortes's axiom, every society defines a set of people with whom one a norm of prescriptive altruism, one's relatives. One has morally neutral relationship with everyone else. The zone of people who are kin as opposed to strangers can be differently defined, bigger or smaller, in every society. For some societies, all members of the community are kin in one form or another. In some, all members of humanity are. Fortes' point is that all societies have a domain defined by //societas// and another domain defined by //civitas//, although the scope of each varies. Fortes tosses out the evolutionary ladder from Morgan's idea but keeps the emphasis on seeing kinship as basically a system of classification of all the members of a community. This too was what [[Claude Levi-Strauss]] wanted to recover from Morgan.  It's in these innovative aspects of Morgan's thought one can find what others wanted to retain. Morgan's distinction between societies and civitas became important for [[Meyer Fortes]]'s theory of kinship as a relationship based on an "axiom of amity." In Fortes's axiom, every society defines a set of people with whom one a norm of prescriptive altruism, one's relatives. One has morally neutral relationship with everyone else. The zone of people who are kin as opposed to strangers can be differently defined, bigger or smaller, in every society. For some societies, all members of the community are kin in one form or another. In some, all members of humanity are. Fortes' point is that all societies have a domain defined by //societas// and another domain defined by //civitas//, although the scope of each varies. Fortes tosses out the evolutionary ladder from Morgan's idea but keeps the emphasis on seeing kinship as basically a system of classification of all the members of a community. This too was what [[Claude Levi-Strauss]] wanted to recover from Morgan. 
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