The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx _ Lawrence Krader

THE ETHNOLOGICAL  NOTEBOOKS OF KARL MARX

(Studies of Morgan, Phear, Maine, Lubbock)

Lawrence Krader

1974

Pages : 461

Introduction

Section 

1. Marx’s Excerpts from Morgan, Ancient Society 6

The State and Civilized Society 19

Marx’s Marginalia in the Morgan Excerpts 24

2. Marx’s Excerpts from Phear, The Aryan Village 31

3. Marx’s Excerpts from Maine, Lectures on the Early History of Institutions 34

4. Marx’s Excerpts from Lubbock, The Origin of Civilisation 43

5. General Considerations of the Historical Placement of these Works 44

6. Community, Collectivism and Individualism 58

7. Relation of Engels to Marx and Morgan 76

Addenda

1. Chronology. 86

2. Varia. 89

Technical Apparatus and Format 91

Part I. Marx’s Excerpts from Lewis Henry Morgan Ancient Society. 95

Part II. Marx’s Excerpts from John Budd Phear, The Aryan Village 243

Part III. Marx’s Excerpts from Henry Sumner Maine, Lectures on the Early History of Institutions 285

Part IV. Marx’s Excerpts from John Lubbock, The Origin of Civilisation. 337

Notes 353 to Introduction 354-397

to Part 1. 397-414

to Part II. 414-415

to Part III. 415-420

to Part IV 420-421

Bibliography 423

I. Marx’s Bibliographic Notes 425

Notes to Bibliography I . 430

II. General Bibliography 431 Index of Names . 443

Tables in Introduction

I. Comments by Marx on Morgan . 12

II. Marginal lines in the Morgan excerpts 25

III. Marginal lines by Marx in Phear excerpts 3 3

IV. Marx’s interpolations in the Phear excerpts 34

V. Marginal lines in the Maine excerpts 36

VI. References by Engels to Morgan 78

VII. Marx’s Excerpts from Morgan in Engels 79

Facsimile Pages

Morgan. 96

Phear

Maine. 286

Lubbock 338