| Description |
v, 243 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 18 |
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Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 18
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| 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 |
| Analysis |
Marxist anthropology |
| Notes |
Translation of some of the essays from the author's Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Note from verso of title page: "This English edition includes part I, chapters 1, 2 and 3; part II, chapter 1; part IV, chapters 1 and 2; and part V, chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the French edition, Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie, which have been renumbered consecutively." |
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Cambridge studies in social anthropology no:18 0068-6794 |
| Subject |
Dialectical materialism.
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Economic anthropology.
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Ethnology.
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Marxist anthropology.
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| Author |
Brain, Robert, 1933-
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| LC no. |
76011081 |
| ISBN |
0521213118 |
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0521290988 |
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