Relations of Production
1st Edition
Published on 12. January 1978
Book
Hardback
430 pages
978-0-7146-3000-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 English in 1964 with an introduction by Eric Hobsbawm), and that of Engels, of which The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
737 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7146-3000-7 (9780714630007)
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Content
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