Exploring the Possibility of Transcending the Aryan Path:Lin Yaohua's Studies on the Primitive Social History
Lin Yaohua's research on primitive social history emerged in response to the trend of the times,and has been deeply cultivated for more than 30 years.His theory of primitive social history,which combines the academic orientation of evolution and functionalism,went through two stages of initial exploration in the 1950s and perfection in the 1980s,focusing on clarifying the issues of clan origin procedures and military democracy.He was committed to the study of the three-stage classification method of primitive society and the patrilineal family communes.He successively revised the two-stage classification method in Soviet academia,proposed the contrasting structure between patrilineal clans and patrilineal family communes,and constructed the theory of state generation that includes water conservancy society and military democracy society.His theory of primitive social history effectively countered the dual pattern of the Aryan path,clarified issues,and actively explored the possibilities and universal schemes of non-Aryan paths.
Primitive Social Historythe Aryan PathClanPatrilineal Family Communes