我们都曾经背诵这样一个论断:父权制度并非亘古就有,历史上曾经存在着一个母系氏族社会。这个观点被广泛地写进了各种教科书,但这并非恩格斯的原创,它实际上取自与恩格斯同时代的古典学教授巴霍芬。在其名著《母权论》中,巴霍芬根据古典神话与历史记载,提出了这个划时代的观点。这本书后来成了几乎所有女性主义者的必引之书,虽然里面的诸多观点不乏争议,并且已经遭到了现代人类学家的毁灭性批判,然而,它对原 We all recite the assertion that the patriarchal system does not exist forever, and historically there existed a matriarchal clan society. This view has been widely written in various texts, but it is not the originality of Engels, it is actually taken from the same classical Engels professor Bahuo Fen. In his famous book, “Theories of Rights,” Bahooven proposed this epochal viewpoint based on classical myths and historical records. This book later became a must-read book for almost all feminists. Although many of the ideas in the book were controversial and have been devastatingly criticized by modern anthropologists,