Genetic Epistemology, Marxism, and Anthropology

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. General Editor's Preface V
3. Introduction: Critical versus Ideological Marxism 1
4. PART ONE An Existential Opening
5. Marxist Anthropology and the Critique of Everyday Life 13
6. From Discourse to Silence: The Structuralist Impasse 31
7. PART TWO The Structuralist Constraint
8. Epistemological Comments on the Problems of Comparing Modes of Production and Societies 71
9. Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose: The Dilemma of the French Structural Marxists 93
10. Genetic Epistemology, Marxism, and Anthropology 125
11. On the Dialectic of Exogamic Exchange 141
12. PART THREE Primitive Communism as Theory and Critique
13. The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx: A Commentary 153
14. The Position of the Primitive-Communal Social Order in the Soviet-Marxist Theory of History 173
15. Class, Commodity, and the Status of Women 185
16. Problems of Primitive Society in Soviet Ethnology 201
17. The Anthropology of Work 215
18. Living Legal Customs of the Common People of Europe 257
19. PART FOUR African Perspectives
20. Urban Ethnology in Africa: Some Theoretical Issues 267
21. Long-Distance Trade and the Formation of the State: The Case of the Abron Kingdom of Gyaman 291
22. Feudalism in Nigeria 337
23. PART FIVE Idealogical Reflections
24. British Social Anthropology 367
25. Reminiscences of Primitive Divisions of Labor Between Sexes and Age Groups in the Peasant Folklore of Modern Times 377
26. The Production of Aesthetic Values 385
27. The Conscience of the West: Job and the Trickster 393
28. PART SIX Some Academic and Bourgeois Illusions
29. The Revolutionary Potential of the Mexican Peasant 405
30. Social Evolution, Population, and Production 421
31. Population Pressure and Methods of Cultivation: A Critique of Classless Theory 457
32. Biographical Notes 469
33. Index of Names 473
34. Index of Subjects 479