The conceptual reappearance of peasantry in Anglo-Saxon social science

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Contributors VII
4. Preface IX
5. Introduction XIX
6. Part I: Marxism, anthropology, history
7. The emergence of Marxism in anthropology in France 3
8. Historicism in Soviet ethnographic science 19
9. The theory of socio-economic formations and world history 29
10. A Russian Marxist philosophy of history 59
11. Part II: The distinctiveness of the primitive
12. Ethnographic reconstruction of the history of primitive society 85
13. Hunters and gatherers today and reconstruction of the past 95
14. Thought and writing 119
15. The origins of the state among the nomads of Asia 135
16. Part ΙII: The distinctiveness of the contemporary world
17. The object and the subject-matter of ethnography 151
18. The place of ‘ethnos’ theory in Soviet anthropology 161
19. Ethnic sociology of present-day life 171
20. The conceptual reappearance of peasantry in Anglo-Saxon social science 181
21. Part IV: Anthropology and psychology
22. Anthropology and the psychological disciplines 195
23. Ethnography and psychology 217
24. The study of religions in Soviet ethnography 231
25. Theories of North Asian shamanism 243
26. Part VI: Concepts and methods
27. Ethnography and linguistics 257
28. Ethnography and demography 265
29. Structure and structuralism 275
30. Index 283