Marxism and anthropology : the history of a relationship /

Marxism and anthropology : the history of a relationship /

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Author / Creator:	Bloch, Maurice.
Imprint:	London : Routledge, 2004.
Description:	1 online resource (192 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography.
Subject:	Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883 -- Knowledge -- Anthropology. Engels, Friedrich, -- 1820-1895 -- Knowledge -- Anthropology. Engels, Friedrich, -- 1820-1895. Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883. Marxist anthropology. Anthropology. Anthropology. Marxist anthropology. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11303155

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ISBN:	9781136548932 1136548939 9781315017952 1315017954 0415330610 9780415330619 9780415611602
Notes:	Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon, 1983. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This book examines the uses made of anthropology by Marx and Engels, and the uses made of Marxism by anthropologists. Looking at the writings of Marx and Engels on primitive societies, the book evaluates their views in the light of present knowledge and draws attention to inconsistencies in their analysis of pre-capitalist societies. These inconsistencies can be traced to the influence of contemporary anthropologists who regarded primitive societies as classless. As Marxist theory was built around the idea of class, without this concept the conventional Marxist analysis foundered. First pu.
Other form:	Print version: Bloch, Maurice. Marxism and anthropology 0415330610

Table of Contents:

Anthropology and the work of Marx and Engels
Marx and Engels on anthropology
The present-day standing of Marx's and Engels's anthropology
The direct successors to Marx and Engels
Marxism and American anthropology
Marxism and British and French anthropology.