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
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From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:21:32 -0700
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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
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
Peruse back issues of Dialectical Anthropology,
http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/jrnltoc.htm/0304-4092
Michael Pugliese
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
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
n this area.
Good luck Engels has a few big surprises in his little work
Greg Schofield
Perth Australia
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:18:26 -0700
Subject: [PEN-L:18974] query: Engels & anthropology
Has ther
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