Table of Contents
About the Authors v
Editors Note vii
Foreword Jennifer Doyle ix
Introduction: Engels and the History of Women's Oppression Eleanor Burke Leacock xxvii
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Preface to the First Edition 3
Preface to the Fourth Edition 6
I Stages of Prehistoric Culture 19
II The Family 27
1 The Consanguine Family, the First Stage of the Family 36
2 The Punaluan Family 37
3 The Pairing Family 45
4 The Monogamous Family 61
III The Iroquois Gens 83
IV The Greek Gens 99
V The Rise of the Athenian State 109
VI The Gens and the State in Rome 121
VII The Gens among Celts and Germans 133
VIII The Formation of the State among the Germans 148
IX Barbarism and Civilization 160
Appendix: A Recently Discovered Case of Group Marriage 182
Index 187