RE: [Marxism] Origin of Marriage

[Christopher Carrico <ccarrico@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Some of the most interesting work to have been done in
anthropology since the 1970's has come from Marxist
feminists.  The work of Eleanor Leacock is foundational.
For a very clear consideration of what is still relevant in
Engels work and what has been superceded ethnographically
see Leacock's introduction to the International Publishers
edition of The Origin of the Family, Private, Property and
the State.

Other relavant works by Leacock include:

1978 "Women's status in egalitarian society: implications
for social evolution."  In Current Anthropology 19(2):247-
275.

1979  "Class, commodity and the status of women."  In Toward
a Marxist Anthropology, Stanley Diamond, ed.  The Hague:
Mouton.

1981 Myths of Male Dominance.  New York: Monthly Review.
(already mentioned on the list).

1983 "The origins of gender inequality: Conceptual and
historical problems."  In Dialectical Anthropology 7(4): 263-
284.

Also:  Leacock and June Nash.  1977 Ideology of Sex.
Annals, NY Academy of Sciences.

Personally, I have also found the introduction to Christine
Gailey's book 1987  Kinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy
and State Formation in the Tongan Islands.  Austin: UT
Press.  to contain a very helpful review of the literature.




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