The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Blurb

The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State: in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan is an 1884 historical materialist treatise by Friedrich Engels. It is partially based on notes by Karl Marx to Lewis H. Morgan's book Ancient Society. The book is an early anthropological work and is regarded as one of the first major works on family economics.