Perspectives in Marxist anthropology /
| Main Author: | Godelier, Maurice. |
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| Other Authors: | Brain,Robert , (transl.) |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Published: |
Cambridge ; London ; New York ; New Rochelle ; Melbourne ; Sydney :
Cambridge University Press,
1981.
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| Series: |
Cambridge studies in social anthropology ;
18 |
| Subjects: |
Table of 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.