Title:
Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie. Selections. English
Perspectives in Marxist anthropology / Maurice Godelier ; translated by Robert Brain.
Cambridge studies in social anthropology ;
Author:
Godelier, Maurice.
General Notes:
Translation of some of the essays from the author's Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie., Translation of some of the essays from the author's Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Publication Place:
Cambridge ; New York :
ISBN:
0521213118 :
0521290988
Subject:
Marxist anthropology.
Series:
Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 18
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.
Physical Description:
v, 243 p. ;
Publication Date:
1977.
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