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Author Bloch, Maurice.

Title Marxism and anthropology : the history of a relationship / Maurice Bloch.

Publication Info. London : Routledge, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography
Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography.
Note Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon, 1983.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Anthropology and the work of Marx and Engels -- Marx and Engels on anthropology -- The present-day standing of Marx's and Engels's anthropology -- The direct successors to Marx and Engels -- Marxism and American anthropology -- Marxism and British and French anthropology.
Summary This book examines the uses made of anthropology by Marx and Engels, and the uses made of Marxism by anthropologists. Looking at the writings of Marx and Engels on primitive societies, the book evaluates their views in the light of present knowledge and draws attention to inconsistencies in their analysis of pre-capitalist societies. These inconsistencies can be traced to the influence of contemporary anthropologists who regarded primitive societies as classless. As Marxist theory was built around the idea of class, without this concept the conventional Marxist analysis foundered. First pu.
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Subject Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 -- Knowledge and learning -- Anthropology.
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Anthropology.
Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895 -- Knowledge and learning -- Anthropology.
Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895.
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895.
Marxist anthropology.
Marxist anthropology.
Anthropology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bloch, Maurice. Marxism and anthropology 0415330610 (OCoLC)53872143
ISBN 9781136548932 (electronic book)
1136548939 (electronic book)
9781315017952 (e-book ; PDF)
1315017954 (e-book ; PDF)
0415330610
9780415330619
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