ABSTRACT
Friedrich, in his book The Princes of Naranja, significantly sub-titled An Essay in Anthropological Method, is intensely concerned with how knowledge is produced in the fieldwork context, and how this is transformed into an ethnographic text. At the explicitly recognized risk of eclecticism, Friedrich cheerfully recognizes the influence upon his work of relativism, romanticism, structural–functionalism, rationalism, Marxism, Freudianism, and phenomenology. In The Princes of Naranja, Friedrich stops short of developing a Marxist theory of language; this is, in part, due to his still somewhat undigested eclecticism. Thus, as propounded by Lefebvre, “A sociology inspired by Marxism might well address itself to the relation between poetry and myth”. But his concern with “ideology” leads him to a more extended discourse on language, in which he deals with the potentiality of Marxist theory for illuminating critical areas of linguistic understanding.
