1st Edition

Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology

Edited By Maurice Bloch Copyright 1984
    258 Pages
    by Routledge

    258 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.