Sections 1 Morgan, who spent the greater part of his life among the Iroquois in the State of New York… 2 A system that is generally accepted in America, that also exists in Asia among people of… 3 The systems of kinship and forms of the family just mentioned differ from the present… 4 And if strict monogamy is the height of virtue, then the palm belongs to the tapeworm that… 5 It becomes apparent from this, that animal societies may indeed have a certain value in… 6 What does the term "unrestricted sexual intercourse" 7 The Consanguine Family is the first step toward the family. 8 Every primeval family necessarily had to divide after a few generations. 9 This family form, the existence of which in Hawaii was actually demonstrated, would have… 10 If we now take one of the two standard groups of a Punaluan family, namely that of a series… 11 The most essential contribution to our knowledge of the group marriage we owe to the English… 12 The system of two classes is not only found near Mount Gambier in South Australia, but also… 13 In the abduction of women, by the way, a trace of transition to monogamy is found even here,… 14 In this ever more extending restriction of marriage between consanguineous relations,… 15 The pairing family, being too weak and too unstable to make an independent household… 16 Whether or not the pairing family has in our time entirely supplanted group marriage in… 17 Here we touch Bachofen's fourth great discovery: the widespread form of transition from… 18 Again, among other nations the friends and relatives of the bridegroom or the wedding guests… 19 We now leave America, the classic soil of the pairing family. 20 Such riches, once they had become the private property of certain families and augmented… 21 In the measure of the increasing wealth man's position in the family became superior to that… 22 The first effect of the established supremacy of men became now visible in the reappearance… 23 The Zadruga of southern Slavonia offers the best still existing illustration of such a… 24 In Algeria it is still found among the Kabyles. 25 4. 26 For the Greeks of later times we must make a distinction between Dorians and Ionians. 27 The Athenian family became in the course of time the model after which not only the rest of… 28 The old relative freedom of sexual intercourse by no means disappeared with the victory of… 29 Thus we have in the monogamous family, at least in those cases that remain true to… 30 This progress doubtless arose from the fact that the Germans still lived in the pairing… 31 Civil matrimony in our day is of two kinds. 32 Here all the fundamental conditions of classic monogamy have been abolished. 33 In regard to marriage, even the most advanced law is completely satisfied after both parties… 34 The legal equality of man and woman in marriage is by no means better founded. 35 * * * * * We have, then, three main forms of the family, corresponding in general to the… 36 At all events, the situation will be very much changed for men. 37 Our sexlove is essentially different from the simple sexual craving, the Eros, of the ancients. 38 The same held good for the bourgeois of the medieval towns, the members of the guilds. 39 But in order to make contracts, people must have full freedom over their persons, actions… 40 It was the knight errant time of the bourgeoisie. 41 The indissolubility of marriage is partly the consequence of economic conditions, under… 42 FOOTNOTES: [7] Author's note. 43 [13] There is no longer any doubt that the traces of unrestricted sexual intercourse, which… 44 The characteristic feature of the class system is that by the side of the gentile order,…
Start Learning The long central chapter. From the contradiction between Iroquois kinship terms and actual family relations, Engels reconstructs the sequence of family forms — consanguine, punaluan, pairing, monogamous — and argues that strict monogamy arose from property: the overthrow of mother-right was "the historic defeat of the female sex."
Kinship systems versus actual family forms The consanguine, punaluan, pairing, and monogamous families The overthrow of mother-right Monogamy as a property institution Hetaerism, adultery, and prostitution as monogamy's complements Sex love and the future of marriage
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