FREDERICK ENGELS


THE ORIGIN
OF THE FAMILY,
PRIVATE PROPERTY
AND THE STATE

In Connection with the Researches of
Lewis H. Morgan


FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS
PEKING

First Edition 1978

 


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@marx2mao.org (June 1999)

The present English edition of Engels' The Origin of the Family, Private Property
and the State
[
1] largely follows the English translation published by the Interna-
tional Publishers, New York, 1942 with corrections where necessary on the basis
of the original German text in Marx and Engels, Werke, Dietz Verlag, Berlin, Vols.
21 and 22.

    The notes and indexes are compiled from various sources.


 

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

3

PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION

6

I.

STAGES OF PREHISTORIC CULTURE

23


1.  Savagery
2.  Barbarism

24
25

II.

THE FAMILY

31

III.

THE IROQUOIS GENS

98

IV.

THE GREEK GENS

117

V.

THE RISE OF THE ATHENIAN STATE

128

VI.

THE GENS AND THE STATE IN ROME

142

VII.

THE GENS AMONG THE CELTS AND GERMANS

156

VIII.

THE FORMATION OF THE STATE AMONG THE GERMANS

175

IX.

BARBARISM AND CIVILIZATION

190


APPENDIX

A RECENTLY DISCOVERED CASE OF GROUP MARRIAGE

217

NOTES

222

NAME INDEX  [not available -- DJR]

237

ETHNOGRAPHICAL INDEX  [not available -- DJR]

247

SUBJECT INDEX  [not available -- DJR]

256



THE ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY,
PRIVATE PROPERTY
AND THE STATE

In Connection with the Researches of
Lewis H. Morgan


 
 
 

Written between the end of
March and May 26, 1884
 
First appeared in book form in
1884 in Zurich

    

 Original in German
 
 English translation made from
 the fourth German edition (1891)
 



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