Perspectives in Marxist anthropology / Maurice Godelier ; translated by Robert Brain.
By: Godelier, Maurice.
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BookSeries: Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 18.Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1977Uniform titles: Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie. Selections. English Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie. Selections. English Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie. Selections. English Subject(s): Marxist anthropoDDC classification: 335.43/8/3012 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 tribe30620.--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 his
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