![]() Engels believed that ancient societies were founded on matriarchies. Morgan to set forth hsi own hypothesis about the roots of society. Engels uses research conducted by Lewis H. ![]() The way that Engels begins his argument is to describe the cultural realities of a tribal society, specifically the Iroquois tribe. What is clear is that his argument as set forth in this book is cogent. ![]() Engels’ prediction of social and economic revolution may or may not be specious. Although controversy persists to this day regarding the authenticity of the anthropological research and evidence used by Engels, the basic arguments made in the book have exerted an important influence. As such, the thesis that is put forward in the book is that the specific systems of human society that exist in the present can be traced back to radically different systems of the past, and simultaneously used as predictive models for radically changed systems of the future. The book also describes a prediction of what kind of political and economic changes Engels believed might take place in the future as society continued to evolve. Morgan (1884) makes an anthropological case for the development of concepts such as the State, the family, and private property. Relation of Global Warming and Extreme Weather Conditionįriedrich Engels’ study The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State: in the light of the researches of Lewis H. ![]() Power Point Presentation With Speaker Notes ![]()
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