Perspectives in Marxist anthropology / Maurice Godelier ; translated by Robert Brain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Godelier, Maurice.

Series:

Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 18.

Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 18

Standardized Title:

Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie. Selections. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Economic anthropology.

Dialectical materialism.

Physical Description:

v, 243 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1977.

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.

Notes:

Translation of some of the essays from the author's Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0521213118 :

OCLC:

2464525