Relations of Production

Marxism and Anthropology: a preliminary survey; PART ONE: EXPLORATIONS IN THEORY The Object and Method of Economic Anthropology; 'The Economy' in Agricultural Self-Sustaining Societies: a Preliminary Analysis; The Social Organisation of the Peasantry: The Economic Basis of Kinship; Reflections on the Relevance of a Theory of the History of Exchange; The Concept of the 'Asiatic Mode of Production' and Marxist Models of Social Evolution; PART TWO: FIELDWORK IN AFRICA Research on an African Mode of Production; Kinship Relations and Relations of Production; The Social Organisation of Agricultural Labour among the Soninke (Dyahunu, Mali); Marriage among the Wogo; Status, Power and Wealth: Relations of Lineage, Dependence and Production in Alladian Society

Biography

Edited by David Seddon, Translation by Helen Lackner