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Perspectives in Marxist anthropology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Godelier, Maurice
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Series:Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 18
Subjects:
Table of 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.