关于原始社会的分期问题,至今在世界民族学者中,尚无一致意见。有些人还在认为,摩尔根的原始社会分期法是可取的,也有人则认为,摩尔根的原始社会分期法即是恩格斯的原始社会史分期法。当然,对于摩尔根的评价意见有不同。因而,该问题仍是民族学界学术讨论的重要课题。我在解放前,就研究原始社会(当时称初民社会),解放后,又对原始社会史的分期法问题进行了专门研究,并写过几篇论文。但因系在地方性刊物上发表,故有的同志可能未曾看到。今日愿将曾发表过的有关意见作一综合 There are no unanimous opinions among the world’s scholars of the world about the staging of primitive society. Some people still think that Morgan’s original social staging method is desirable, while others think that Morgan’s original social staging method is Engels’s original social history staging method. Of course, there are differences in opinion about Morgan. Therefore, this issue is still an important issue in the ethnological academic discussion. Before liberation, I studied the primitive society (then called the early civil society) and, after the liberation, I conducted a special study on the issue of the staging of primitive social history and wrote several dissertations. However, because of the publication in local publications, some comrades may not have seen it. Today we would like to consolidate the relevant opinions that have been published