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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453475903321

Titolo

Marxist analyses and social anthropology / / edited by Maurice Bloch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

0-415-61159-8

1-315-01794-6

1-136-54865-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography : theory of anthropology

Altri autori (Persone)

BlochMaurice

Disciplina

259

Soggetti

Ethnology

Historical materialism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1975.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page ; Original Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; General Editor's Note; Maurice Bloch Introduction; Empiricism and Historical Materialism; Maurice Godelier Modes of Production, Kinship, and Demographic Structures; Raymond Firth The Sceptical Anthropologist? Social Anthropology and Marxist Views on Society; Stephan Feuchtwang Investigating Religion; Class and Class Consciousness; Emmanuel Terray Classes and Class Consciousness in the Abron Kingdom of Gyaman

Joel Kahn Economic Scale and the Cycle of Petty Commodity Production in West SumatraDominance Determination and Evolution; Jonathan Friedman Tribes, States, and Transformations; Maurice Bloch Property and the End of Affinity; Biographical Notes; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Reflecting the first evaluation among British and American anthropologists of the relevance of Marxist theory for their discipline, the studies in this volume cover a wide geographical and social spectrum ranging from rural Indonesia, Imperial China, Highland Burma and the Abron kingdom of Gyaman. <BR> A critical survey assesses the value of some key ideas of Marx and Engels to social anthropology and



places in historical perspective the changing attitudes of social anthropologists to the Marxist tradition. <BR> Originally published in 1975.