Re: Re: Re: query: Engels & anthropology

2001-10-23 Thread Greg Schofield
is way also great success stories of the human spirit. I will not add any more but am ever willing to elaborate ; ) Greg Schofield Perth Australia --- Message Received --- From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:21:32 -0700 Subject: [PEN-L:19012

Re: Re: query: Engels & anthropology

2001-10-23 Thread Jim Devine
thanks for your reply. It was quite useful. Could you please give a quick summary of Dobbins' theory of the missing dialectic? At 10:21 AM 10/23/01 +0800, you wrote: >If you are interested to track down a pamphlet by (I think) Peggy >Anne Dobbins "From Kin to Class" you will find that she has >d

Re: Re: query: Engels & anthropology

2001-10-22 Thread Chris Burford
It is a bit tangential to earliest anthropology but the following post I have just dashed off to Marxism and Sciences illustrates a crucial period in the rise of the modern state. It also illustrated how the early islamic Empire provided conditions for the emergence of a type of civil society inte