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" This rediscovery of the primitive matriarchal gens as the earlier stage of the patriarchal gens of civilized peoples has the same importance for anthropology as Darwin's theory of evolution has for biology and Marx's theory of surplus value for political... "
Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy)
edited by - 2000 - 366 pages
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Revolution in Science

I. Bernard Cohen - History - 1985 - 742 pages
...motherright gens as the stage preliminary to the father-right gens of the civilised peoples" as having the "same significance for the history of primitive...Marx's theory of surplus value for political economy" (Marx and Engels 1962, 2: 181-182). In a book review of the first volume of Das Kapital (27 Dec. 1867,...
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Early Antiquity

I. M. Diakonoff - History - 1991 - 496 pages
...(1877). In his Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, Engels notes that Morgan's book has "the same significance for the history of primitive society as Darwin's theory of evolution has for biology."2 Morgan's book was written from an independently derived materialist position and contained...
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Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Women in Seventeenth-century New ...

Karen L. Anderson - Catholic converts - 1991 - 264 pages
...stage of the patriarchal gens of civilized peoples' as having the same importance for anthropology 'as Darwin's theory of evolution has for biology and...Marx's theory of surplus value for political economy' (ibid.:71). According to Engels's assessment, Morgan's rediscovery of the matriarchal gens was the...
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Natural Women, Cultured Men: A Feminist Perspective on Sociological Theory

R. A. Sydie - Social Science - 1994 - 284 pages
...original mother-right gens as the stage preliminary to the father-right gens of the civilized peoples has the same significance for the history of primitive...biology, and Marx's theory of surplus value for political economy."8 The discovery of father-right at the same time as the development of surplus wealth and...
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Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution: Reaching for the Future

Raya Dunayevskaya - History - 1996 - 316 pages
...earlier stage of the patriarchal gens of civilized peoples has the same importance for anthropology as Darwin's theory of evolution has for biology and...Marx's theory of surplus value for political economy." Marx didn't take issue with Morgan's findings about the Iroquois society and especially singled out...
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Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic ...

Alys Eve Weinbaum - Medical - 2004 - 366 pages
...writes in the preface to the fourth edition of Origin (1891), "has the same importance for anthropology as Darwin's theory of evolution has for biology and Marx's theory of surplus value has for political economy" (48). It is now commonplace for Marxist scholars and anthropologists to...
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Nature: From nature to natures : contestation and reconstruction

David Inglis, John Bone, Rhoda Wilkie - Social Science - 2005 - 426 pages
...original mother-right gens as the stage preliminary to the father-right gens of the civilized peoples has the same significance for the history of primitive...biology, and Marx's theory of surplus value for political economy."8 The discovery of father-right at the same time as the development of surplus wealth and...
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The Native Peoples of North America: A History, Volume 1

Bruce Elliott Johansen - History - 2006 - 512 pages
...past. Having discovered the "mother-right gens" (as he called the matriarchal society of the Iroquois) Engels could scarcely contain himself. "It has the...Marx's theory of surplus value for political economy," Engels enthused. "The mother-right gens," he wrote, "has become the pivot around which this entire...
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