{"id":5,"date":"2012-09-06T19:35:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T19:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antonioserna.com\/work\/?p=5"},"modified":"2013-03-02T17:37:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T17:37:57","slug":"4points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antonioserna.com\/work\/4points\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Points and a Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is usually the grandeur of the wooded area surrounding The Manse that we recall from our history books. In American Romantic painting for example we are overwhelmed by the sublime depicted in the surrounding forms: nature, elements of the creator, man and nothing else. Within the framework of Four Points and a Circle we are called to uncover a different human condition hidden from our perspective.<\/p>\n

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Four Points and a Circle<\/strong>\u00a0demarcates several entry points in the wooded area behind the\u00a0<\/em>The Manse, each point leads visitors to a listening circle, each circle having a specific topic of discussion relation to the\u00a0<\/em>The Manse. Below are the discussion points presented thus far:<\/em><\/p>\n

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One: A Search for a Different Economy<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe Manse, Ithaca, New York
\nSeptember 1st & 2nd, 2012<\/p>\n

In 1877 American anthropologist and ethnographer Lewis Henry Morgan published Ancient Society. <\/em>This expansive five-part book contains extensive research on various civilizations including the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) that he used to formulate a theory of social evolution. Four years later Karl Marx sat down and took detailed notes on Morgan\u2019s Ancient Society<\/em> along with notes on other anthropological findings at that time. In 1884, a year after Marx passed away, Friedrich Engels picked up from Marx\u2019s notebooks and published The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and The State. <\/em>Paul Bohannan states in his introduction to Morgan\u2019s The Houses and House-Life of American Aborigines<\/em>* that \u201cEngels\u2019 book on the family is<\/em> Morgan, with minor modifications.\u201d<\/p>\n

[1] A page from Marx\u2019s notebooks on Lewis Henry Morgan\u2019s Ancient Society\u00a0<\/em>Part I. Ch. I. These notes form what is referred to as the ethnological notebooks of Karl Marx 1881, 1882, 1883.<\/p>\n

[2] Word by word transcription of Marx\u2019s notes on Lewis Henry Morgan by Lawrence Krader. Formatted here to appear as it was written in Marx\u2019s notebook.<\/p>\n

[3] Diagram showing the relationship between the books mentioned above.\u00a0In 1972, Lawrence Krader transcribed Marx\u2019s notebooks with an introduction which suggest a line in Marx\u2019s thought in The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx: <\/em>Studies of Morgan, Phear, Maine, Lubbock<\/em>.<\/p>\n

*The final part of Ancient Society<\/em> (part v) <\/em>was publish as a stand alone book re-titled Houses and House-Life \u00a0<\/em>of the American Aborigines<\/em>, 1881.<\/p>\n

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FOUR POINTS AND A CIRCLE<\/strong> is one of many projects at:
\nComplimenta (I)\/The Manse.
\nIthaca, New York
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It is usually the grandeur of the wooded area surrounding The Manse that we recall from our history books. In American Romantic painting for example we are overwhelmed by the sublime depicted in the surrounding forms: nature, elements of the creator, man and nothing else. Within the framework of Four Points and a Circle we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,17,5,4],"tags":[15,12,13,10,11,8,9,14],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropology","category-ethnology","category-featured-small","category-nature","category-research","tag-capitalism","tag-cayuga","tag-egalitarian","tag-haudenosaunee","tag-iroquois-confederacy","tag-karl-marx","tag-lewis-henry-morgan","tag-pre-capitalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioserna.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioserna.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioserna.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioserna.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioserna.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioserna.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioserna.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioserna.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioserna.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioserna.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antonioserna.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}