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Origins of the Family-- Chapter 3

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Origins of the Family: Chapter 3

Origins of the Family-- Chapter 3 Frederick Engels Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State III. The Iroquois Gens We now come to another discovery made by Morgan, which is at least as important as the reconstruction of the family in its primitive form from the systems of consanguinity. The proof that the kinship organizations designated by animal names in a tribe of American Indians are essentially identical with the genea of the Greeks and the gentes of the Romans; that the American is the original form and the Greek and Roman forms are later and derivative; that the whole soci

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