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xi 1. A fifteenth-century depiction of Amazons from The Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel 18 2. A classical representation of Achilles and Penthesilea, late fifth century b.c.e. 23 3. François Marie Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist 32 4. Johann Jakob Bachofen as a young man 37 5. Johann Jakob Bachofen, author of Das Mutterrecht 40 6. Henry Sumner Maine, English jurist 71 7. John Ferguson McLennan, Scottish attorney 73 8. John Lubbock (Lord Avebury), British banker and amateur archaeologist 80 9. Herbert Spencer, British popularizer of social Darwinism 85 10. Lewis Henry Morgan, American anthropologist 88 11. William Robertson Smith, Scottish philologist 93 12. Edward Burnett Tylor, British anthropologist 98 13. Karl Kautsky, Czech popularizer of Marxist theory 102 14. Friedrich Engels, longtime collaborator with Karl Marx 106 15. Karl Marx, German philosopher and economist 108 16. August Bebel, German labor leader 117 17. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist activist 124 18. Eliza Burt Gamble, American suffragist 126 19. Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist 128 20. Adolf Bastian, German ethnologist 135 21. Julius Lippert, Czech historian 140 Illustrations xii Illustrations 22. Josef Kohler, German jurist and amateur ethnologist 148 23. Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist 154 24. Eleanor Marx-Aveling, socialist activist and daughter of Karl Marx 165 25. Clara Zetkin, German socialist and feminist activist 167 26. Edward Westermarck, Finnish anthropologist 173 27. Franz Boas, German American anthropologist 176 ...

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