Absolutely. One of the most interesting books I've read in the last year was Engels "Origins of the Family, Private Property & the State": http://en.wikipedia

Absolutely. One of the most interesting books I've read in the last year was Engels "Origins of the Family, Private Property & the State": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Family,_Private_Property_and_the_State http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Family,_Priva... There is a lot of bat-shit crazy in there, but a lot of very interesting anthropology and ideas as well. Not that those are mutually exclusive.