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Perspectives in Marxist anthropology

Title
Perspectives in Marxist anthropology / Maurice Godelier ; translated by Robert Brain.
Author
Godelier, Maurice.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1977.

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Description
v, 243 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Cambridge studies in social anthropology, 18
Subject
  • Economic anthropology
  • Dialectical materialism
  • Ethnology
Note
  • Translation of some of the essays from the author's Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 77-1870
ISBN
0521213118 : c$18.50. a0521290988 bpbk. : c$6.00 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
76011081
OCLC
  • 2464525
  • NYPG774401269-B
Author
Godelier, Maurice.
Title
Perspectives in Marxist anthropology / Maurice Godelier ; translated by Robert Brain.
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Series
Cambridge studies in social anthropology, 18
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Research Call Number
JFE 77-1870
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