What do you know of the marriage practices, taboos, rights of inheritance, and so on, in the history of the indigenous people of your own country?ħ. What vestiges of mother-right do you see in your own modern society?Ħ. So far as you know, in what sense are all forms of family known in human societies different from anything found, for instance, among the primates, if any?ĥ.
What argument does Engels use to reject the idea that pair-bonding was the form of family at the very beginning of human development?Ĥ. Marx notes Morgan's observation about “systems of consanguity” and says “the same is true of the political, juridical, religious, and philosophical systems in general”. What does “consanguinity” mean and what is meant by the “consanguine family”?Ģ. What do you think are the essential truths of Morgan's analysis that remain valid today?ġ. How do Henry Morgan's categorisations stand up to your own knowledge of early societies, over a hundred years later?Ģ. Origin of the Family, Private Property and the Stateġ. Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, Engels 1876 Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations, Marx 1857
Study Guide for Engels’ Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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