He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure, his theories of social evolution, and his ethnography of the Iroquois. Interested in what holds societies together, he proposed the concept that the earliest human domestic institution was the matrilineal clan, not the patriarchal ...
saying he cooked it up for a local savings and loan in 1967. Some weeks ago this column reported that, whatever David Stern may have done for the savings and loan, he wasn’t the originator of the smiley face. The honor, if you want to call ...