| Description |
v, 243 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 18
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Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; no. 18.
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| Note |
Translation of some of the essays from the author's Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Marxist anthropology.
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Marxist anthropology. |
| Added Title |
Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie. Selections. English
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| ISBN |
0521213118 : $18.50. 0521290988 (paperback) $6.00 |
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