Toward a Marxist Anthropology : : Problems and Perspectives / / ed. by Stanley Diamond.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy <1990
• MitwirkendeR: ASAD, TALAL,; BERTHOUD, GERALD,; BROMLEY, YU. V.,; DIAMOND, STANLEY,; DUNN, STEPHEN P.,; FARIS, JAMES C.,; GODELIER, MAURICE,; GOODFRIEND, DOUGLAS E.,; KATONA, IMRE,; KRADER, LAWRENCE,; LEACOCK, ELEANOR,; LEVINE, STEPHEN K.,; MAGUBANE, BERNARD,; MARIOTTI, AMELIA,; NELL, EDWARD J.,; NEWCOMER, PETER JAY,; NZIMIRO, IKENNA,; ROSSI-LANDI, FERRUCCIO,; SCHOLTE, BOB,; TERRAY, EMANUEL,; TÁRKÁNY-SZÜCS, ERNÓ,; WARMAN, ARTURO,; WELTFISH, GENE,
• HerausgeberIn: Diamond, Stanley,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (492 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

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