Toward a Marxist Anthropology

TOWARD A MARXIST ANTHROPOLOGY (DIAMOND) WA E-BOOK

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TOWARD A MARXIST ANTHROPOLOGY (DIAMOND) WA E-BOOK

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I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Critical versus Ideological Marxism -- PART ONE An Existential Opening -- Marxist Anthropology and the Critique of Everyday Life -- From Discourse to Silence: The Structuralist Impasse -- PART TWO The Structuralist Constraint -- Epistemological Comments on the Problems of Comparing Modes of Production and Societies -- Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose: The Dilemma of the French Structural Marxists -- Genetic Epistemology, Marxism, and Anthropology -- On the Dialectic of Exogamic Exchange -- PART THREE Primitive Communism as Theory and Critique -- The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx: A Commentary -- The Position of the Primitive-Communal Social Order in the Soviet-Marxist Theory of History -- Class, Commodity, and the Status of Women -- Problems of Primitive Society in Soviet Ethnology -- The Anthropology of Work -- Living Legal Customs of the Common People of Europe -- PART FOUR African Perspectives -- Urban Ethnology in Africa: Some Theoretical Issues -- Long-Distance Trade and the Formation of the State: The Case of the Abron Kingdom of Gyaman -- Feudalism in Nigeria -- PART FIVE Idealogical Reflections -- British Social Anthropology -- Reminiscences of Primitive Divisions of Labor Between Sexes and Age Groups in the Peasant Folklore of Modern Times -- The Production of Aesthetic Values -- The Conscience of the West: Job and the Trickster -- PART SIX Some Academic and Bourgeois Illusions -- The Revolutionary Potential of the Mexican Peasant -- Social Evolution, Population, and Production -- Population Pressure and Methods of Cultivation: A Critique of Classless Theory -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects