Relations of Production / Edition 1

by David Seddon, Helen Lackner

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714630007
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/12/1978
Pages:	430
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by David Seddon, Translation by Helen Lackner

Table of Contents

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