Charles Letourneau Explained
Charles Jean Marie Letourneau (23 September 1831, Auray[1] – 21 February 1902, 6th arrondissement of Paris[2]) was a 19th-century French anthropologist.
Biography
In 1865 he joined the Society of Anthropology of Paris[3] of which he was general secretary from 1887 until his death. He thus succeeded Paul Broca who served in this position until 1880.
Friedrich Engels cites Letourneau's work, particularly L'évolution du mariage et de la famille (1888), in later editions of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. Engels asserts that an early stage of human society featured "complete promiscuity in sexual intercourse", contrary to the beliefs of most anthropologists of the era. He quotes Letourneau: "Among mammals there is no strict relation between the degree of intellectual development and the form of sexual life".[4]
Publications
- 1868: La Physiologie des passions
- 1877: La biologie
- 1878: Physiologie des passions
- 1879: Science et matérialisme
- 1880: La sociologie d'après l'ethnographie
- 1882: Questions de sociologie et d'ethnographie
- 1887: L'Évolution de la morale, leçons professées pendant l'hiver de 1885-1886
- 1888: L'évolution du mariage et de la famille
- 1894: L'évolution littéraire dans les diverses races humaines
- 1895: La guerre dans les diverses races humaines
- 1897: L'évolution de l'esclavage dans les diverses races humaines
- 1898: L'évolution de l'éducation dans les diverses races humaines
- 1898: L'évolution religieuse dans les diverses races humaines
- 1901: La psychologie ethnique
- 1903: La condition de la femme dans les diverses races et civilisations
Notes and References
- http://recherche.archives.morbihan.fr/ark:/15049/vta54487ac6dfc42/daogrp/0/layout:table/idsearch:RECH_be4f35c2afb83f8430d39fa5e8243c6f#id:451969829?center=2615.613050831208,-1316.3866473903968 Archives du Morbihan, commune d'Auray, acte de naissance n°91, year 1831 (page 94/654)
- Web site: Archives de Paris 6e, acte de décès n°364, year 1902 . 2016-09-25 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170337/http://canadp-archivesenligne.paris.fr/archives_etat_civil/1860_1902_actes/aec_visu_img.php?registre=V4E_08605&type=AEC&&bdd_en_cours=actes_ec_1893_1902&vue_tranche_debut=AD075EC_V4E_08605_0052&vue_tranche_fin=AD075EC_V4E_08605_0052&ref_histo=2818&cote=V4E%208605 . dead .
- News: Verneau. 741e séance. — 6 March 1902. Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris . 5e Série. 3. 1902. 168–179.
- Book: Engels, Friedrich. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. II. The Family. Friedrich Engels. Marxists Internet Archive. 7 April 2023.
