TY - BOOK ID - 78142011 TI - Marxist analyses and social anthropology PY - 2004 SN - 0415611598 1315017946 1136548653 9781136548659 9781315017945 0415330602 9780415330602 9781136548796 1136548793 9781136548727 1136548726 9780415611596 PB - Oxon [England] : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Ethnology KW - Historical materialism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78142011 AB - Reflecting the first evaluation among British and American anthropologists of the relevance of Marxist theory for their discipline, the studies in this volume cover a wide geographical and social spectrum ranging from rural Indonesia, Imperial China, Highland Burma and the Abron kingdom of Gyaman.
A critical survey assesses the value of some key ideas of Marx and Engels to social anthropology and places in historical perspective the changing attitudes of social anthropologists to the Marxist tradition.
Originally published in 1975. ER -