Perspectives in Marxist anthropology - Godelier, Maurice; Translation of some of the essays from the author's Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1977)
Includes bibliographical references.
Structural causality in economics and some ideas concerning Marxism and anthropology: Anthropology and economics. The concept of social and economic formation. The concept of the tribe.--Dead sections and living ideas in Marx's thinking on primitive society: An attempt at a critical evaluation.--Money and its fetishes: Salt money and the circulation of commodities among the Baruya of New Guinea. Market economy and fetishism, magic, and science according to Marx's Capital.
The phantasmatic nature of social relations: Fetishism, religion and Marx's general theories concerning ideology. The non-correspondence between form and content in social relations. The visible and the invisible among the Baruya of New Guinea. Myth and history.
Keywords: Marxist anthropology