The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

by Friedrich Engels

Overview

The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State: in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan is an 1884 historical materialist treatise by Friedrich Engels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781989708316
Publisher:	Binker North
Publication date:	01/01/1900
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Frederick Engels was born in 1820, in the German city of Barmen. Brought up as a devout Calvinist he moved to England in 1842 to work in his father's Manchester textile firm. After joining the fight against the counter revolution in Germany in 1848 he returned to Manchester and the family business, finally settling there in 1850. In subsequent years he provided financial support for Marx and edited the second and third volumes of Capital. He died while working on the fourth volume in 1895.

Jennifer Doyle is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, where she researches and teaches on literary and cultural studies, visual and performance studies, art history, gender studies, sports, and critical theory. She has curated exhibitions for the Vincent Price Art Museum and The Broad Museum, and is a member of the Board of Directors at Human Resources, Los Angeles, a space dedicated to performance-based art. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Deadspin, Social Text, Cabinet, and World Literature Today, and her books include Campus Sex, Campus Security; Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art; and Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire.

Table of Contents

About the Authors v

Editors Note vii

Foreword Jennifer Doyle ix

Introduction: Engels and the History of Women's Oppression Eleanor Burke Leacock xxvii

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Preface to the First Edition 3

Preface to the Fourth Edition 6

I Stages of Prehistoric Culture 19

II The Family 27

1 The Consanguine Family, the First Stage of the Family 36

2 The Punaluan Family 37

3 The Pairing Family 45

4 The Monogamous Family 61

III The Iroquois Gens 83

IV The Greek Gens 99

V The Rise of the Athenian State 109

VI The Gens and the State in Rome 121

VII The Gens among Celts and Germans 133

VIII The Formation of the State among the Germans 148

IX Barbarism and Civilization 160

Appendix: A Recently Discovered Case of Group Marriage 182

Index 187