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Routledge
430 Pages
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Routledge
432 Pages
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Routledge
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First Published in 1978. This book seeks to fill the gap of works in English that systematically deal with social and economic life in 'primitive', 'tribal' and 'peasant' societies - the main object of economic anthropology, as of any branch of anthropology - from a Marxist theoretical standpoint. Using such relevant texts as Marx himself, the Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations (which appeared in... Read more
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
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Edited by David Seddon, Translation by Helen Lackner
