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Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be
At the Origin of Male Domination
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2024
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When was male domination established in human societies, and why did it take hold? How does humanity's most remote past inform today's feminist struggle?
This new, updated edition of Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be – available for the first time in English translation – represents a timely contribution to the debate, drawing on the accumulated knowledge of ethnology and archaeology.
While noting the many outdated aspects of Morgan and Engels' seminal work, this vast synthesis, guided by a rigorous materialist approach, renews Marxist analysis on a theme that is at once remote and pressingly topical.
This new, updated edition of Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be – available for the first time in English translation – represents a timely contribution to the debate, drawing on the accumulated knowledge of ethnology and archaeology.
While noting the many outdated aspects of Morgan and Engels' seminal work, this vast synthesis, guided by a rigorous materialist approach, renews Marxist analysis on a theme that is at once remote and pressingly topical.
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Christophe Darmangeat, Ph. D. (1965), Université Paris Cité, is associate professor in social anthropology. He is working to renew the materialist analysis of stateless societies and has published several books, including Justice and Warfare in Aboriginal Australia (Lexington).
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"Darmangeat establishes with overwhelming evidence that, in fact, male domination is the norm in classless societies. [...] He demonstrates that these myths seek to justify male domination by evoking a distant disorderly past where women were in charge of society, before men set things right. [...] Darmangeat proposes a synthesis. [...] He affirms that the sexual division of labour is specific to humans. [...] Darmangeat makes an ironclad case that classless societies featured male domination."
—Erwan Moysan, Cardiff University, in: Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 30 September 2024.
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July 1, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9789004535244
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326
eBook ISBN:
9789004535244
Keywords for this book
Gender; Marxism; Materialism; Sexual division of labour; Male domination; Hunter-Gatherers; Foragers; Anthropology; Archaeology; Prehistory; Marx; Engels; Morgan
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The book is aimed at anyone interested in Marxist reasoning on the prehistory of gender. Although richly documented, it is written in simple language and without any unnecessary technical vocabulary.
