Re: Re: Re: query: Engels & anthropology

2001-10-23 Thread Greg Schofield
is way also great success stories of the human spirit. I will not add any more but am ever willing to elaborate ; ) Greg Schofield Perth Australia --- Message Received --- From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:21:32 -0700 Subject: [PEN-L:19012

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2001-10-23 Thread Carrol Cox
I fwd Jim's query to a Chicago anthropologist who posts to lbo occasionally. Her reply below which seems quite useful. Carrol Original Message Subject: Re: [Fwd: [PEN-L:18974] query: Engels & anthropology] Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:32:16 -0500 From: Maureen Anderso

Re: Re: query: Engels & anthropology

2001-10-23 Thread Jim Devine
thanks for your reply. It was quite useful. Could you please give a quick summary of Dobbins' theory of the missing dialectic? At 10:21 AM 10/23/01 +0800, you wrote: >If you are interested to track down a pamphlet by (I think) Peggy >Anne Dobbins "From Kin to Class" you will find that she has >d

Re: query: Engels & anthropology

2001-10-23 Thread Michael Pugliese
Peruse back issues of Dialectical Anthropology, http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/jrnltoc.htm/0304-4092 Michael Pugliese

query: Engels & anthropology

2001-10-23 Thread Charles Brown
query: Engels & anthropology by Jim Devine 22 October 2001 22:21 UTC Has there been a serious effort to consider Engels' _Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State_ from the perspective of recent anthropology, i.e., to present a serious critique (rather than a trash

Re: Re: query: Engels & anthropology

2001-10-22 Thread Chris Burford
It is a bit tangential to earliest anthropology but the following post I have just dashed off to Marxism and Sciences illustrates a crucial period in the rise of the modern state. It also illustrated how the early islamic Empire provided conditions for the emergence of a type of civil society inte

Re: query: Engels & anthropology

2001-10-22 Thread Greg Schofield
n this area. Good luck Engels has a few big surprises in his little work Greg Schofield Perth Australia --- Message Received --- From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:18:26 -0700 Subject: [PEN-L:18974] query: Engels & anthropology Has ther

query: Engels & anthropology

2001-10-22 Thread Jim Devine
Has there been a serious effort to consider Engels' _Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State_ from the perspective of recent anthropology, i.e., to present a serious critique (rather than a trashing) and reconciliation? (The effort by Evelyn Reed in the edition that I own seems t