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
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 trashing
Peruse back issues of Dialectical Anthropology,
http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/jrnltoc.htm/0304-4092
Michael Pugliese
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
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 Anderson [EMAIL
: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:21:32 -0700
Subject: [PEN-L:19012] Re: Re: query: Engels anthropology
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
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
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Private Property, and the State_ from
