Table of Contents
Preface ix
Chronology xi
Introduction 1
Polemics, Caveats, and Standpoints 3
Organization of the Book 5
1 The Enlightenment and Anthropology 9
Early Enlightenment Thought 10
The New Anthropology of the Enlightenment 15
The Institutionalization of Anthropology 23
2 Marx's Anthropology 39
What are Human Beings? 41
History 51
Truth and Praxis 57
3 Human Natural Beings 65
Charles Darwin and the Development of Modern Evolutionary Theory 67
Human Natural Beings: Bodies That Walk, Talk, Make Tools, and Have Culture 74
Marx on the Naturalization of Social Inequality 87
4 History, Culture, and Social Formation 91
Marx's Historical-Dialectical Conceptual Framework 93
Pre-Capitalist Societies: Limited, Local, and Vital 105
5 Capitalism and the Anthropology of the Modern World 117
The Transition to Capitalism and its Development 119
The Articulation of Modes of Production 128
Property, Power, and Capitalist States 138
6 Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century 145
Social Relations and the Formation of Social Individuals 147
Anthropology: "The Study of People in Crisis by People in Crisis" 158
Notes 173
Bibliography 181
Index 219
