Toward a Marxist Anthropology

✍ Scribed by Stanley Diamond (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 505
• Edition: Reprint 2011 ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

General Editor’s Preface
Table of Contents
Introduction: Critical versus Ideological Marxism
PART ONE: AN EXISTENTIAL OPENING
Marxist Anthropology and the Critique of Everyday Life
From Discourse to Silence: The Structuralist Impasse
PART TWO: THE STRUCTURALIST CONSTRAINT
Epistemological Comments on the Problems of Comparing Modes of Production and Societies
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: The Dilemma of the French Structural Marxists
Genetic Epistemology, Marxism, and Anthropology
On the Dialectic of Exogamic Exchange
PART THREE: PRIMITIVE COMMUNISM AS THEORY AND CRITIQUE
The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx: A Commentary
The Position of the Primitive-Communal Social Order in the Soviet-Marxist Theory of History
Class, Commodity, and the Status of Women
Problems of Primitive Society in Soviet Ethnology
The Anthropology of Work
Living Legal Customs of the Common People of Europe
PART FOUR: AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES
Urban Ethnology in Africa: Some Theoretical Issues
Long-Distance Trade and the Formation of the State: The Case of the Abron Kingdom of Gyaman
“Tribal” Elite: A Base for Social Stratification in the Sudan
Feudalism in Nigeria
PART FIVE: IDEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
British Social Anthropology
Reminiscences of Primitive Divisions of Labor Between Sexes and Age Groups in the Peasant Folklore of Modern Times
The Production of Aesthetic Values
The Conscience of the West: Job and the Trickster
PART six: SOME ACADEMIC AND BOURGEOIS ILLUSIONS
The Revolutionary Potential of the Mexican Peasant
Social Evolution, Population, and Production
Population Pressure and Methods of Cultivation: A Critique of Classless Theory
Biographical Notes
Index of Names
Index of Subjects