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The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State

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    In kinship: The evolution of family forms

    Engels’s The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884) was in fact largely based on Morgan’s Ancient Society. It traced the evolution of family forms, linking them, as Morgan had done, to changes in technology and arrangements for the ownership of property. Despite…

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