The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan is an 1884 anthropological treatise by Friedrich Engels. It is partially based on notes by K
First edition (1884)
Lewis Henry Morgan (1818–1881), whose pioneering anthropological study of Native American peoples was adapted by Frederick Engels in The Origin of the Family.
Cover of the 1st English-language edition, published by Charles H. Kerr & Co. of Chicago in 1902.
Friedrich Engels
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Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best known for his lifelong collaboration with Karl Marx, with whom he co-authored The Comm
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
…of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan (German: Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats) is an 1884 anthropological treatise by Friedrich Engels. It is partially based on notes by Karl Marx to Lewis H. Morgan's book Ancient Society (1877). The book is an early historical materialist work and is…
Engels in 1877
Engels's childhood home in Barmen, Prussia, a town which he later described as the "Zion of the obscurantists".
Self-portrait of Engels at age 19 in 1839
Sketch by Engels depicting the Berlin Freien, 1842