Perspectives in Marxist anthropology /

Godelier, Maurice.

Perspectives in Marxist anthropology / Maurice Godelier ; translated by Robert Brain. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1977. - v, 243 p. ; 24 cm.

Translation of some of the essays from the author's Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.


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