Perspectives in Marxist anthropology / Maurice Godelier ; translated by Robert Brain. --
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- ISBN: 0521213118
- Physical Description: v, 243 p. ; 24 cm. --
- Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 1977.
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General Note: | Translation of some of the essays from the author's Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Structural causality in economics and some ideas concerning Marxism and anthropology: Anthropology and economics. The concept of social and economic formation. The concept of the tribe.--Dead sections and living ideas in Marx's thinking on primitive society: An attempt at a critical evaluation.--Money and its fetishes: Salt money and the circulation of commodities among the Baruya of New Guinea. Market economy and fetishism, magic, and science according to Marx's Capital.--The phantasmatic nature of social relations: Fetishism, religion and Marx's general theories concerning ideology. The non-correspondence between form and content in social relations. The visible and the invisible among the Baruya of New Guinea. Myth and history. |
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Subject: | Marxist anthropology. Ethnology. Economic anthropology. Dialectical materialism. |
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