ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |46 pages
Marxism and Anthropology: A Preliminary Survey
part |2 pages
PART ONE: EXPLORATIONS IN THEORY
chapter |78 pages
The Object and Method of Economic Anthropology
chapter |38 pages
Reflections on the Relevance of a Theory of the History of Exchange
part |2 pages
PART TWO: FIELDWORK IN AFRICA