TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bloch,Maurice 
TI  - MARXISM AND ANTHROPOLOGY : History of a Relationship
T2  - Routledge library editions., Anthropology and ethnography
SN  - 9781138565616
U1  - 335.4 
PY  - 2010////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Marxist anthropology
KW  - Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
KW  - Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895
N1  - Summary:	
This book examines the uses made of anthropology by Marx and Engels, and the uses made of Marxism by anthropologists. Looking at the writings of Marx and Engels on primitive societies, the book evaluates their views in the light of present knowledge and draws attention to inconsistencies in their analysis of pre-capitalist societies. These inconsistencies can be traced to the influence of contemporary anthropologists who regarded primitive societies as classless. As Marxist theory was built around the idea of class, without this concept the conventional Marxist analysis foundered. First pu
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