Relations of production
Subtitle: Marxist approaches to economic anthropology
By: edited by David Seddon ; translated by Helen Lackner.
Contributors: Seddon, David.
Publisher: Cass; distributed by Biblio Distribution Centre]
Published: 1978
Place of publication: London; [Totowa, N.J
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: Economic anthropology.; Economic anthropology -- Africa.; Marxist anthropology.
Description: "The first part devoted to theory, and the second to fieldwork in Africa, this collection of essays on economic anthropology by nine French Marxists is concerned essentially with the investigation and analysis of precapitalist social and economic formations, through the modes of production which characterise them, and of their transformations. It is intended to provide the English-speaking reader with an introduction to the important and exciting discussion that has been developing over the last 15 or so years in France, which raises fundamental questions about the way in which a truly scientific study of society should be conducted, and which goes some considerable way towards answering those questions."--Back cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [413]-414.
Table of contents: title: Godelier, M. The object and method of economic anthropology.; title: Meillassoux, C. The economy in agricultural self-sustaining societies.; title: Meillassoux, C. The social organisation of the peasantry.; title: Dupré, G.; Rey, P. Reflections on the relevance of a theory of the history of exchange.; title: Godelier, M. The concept of the Asiatic mode of production and Marxist models of social evolution.; title: Coquery-Vidrovitch, C. Research on an African mode of production.; title: Meillassoux, C. Kinship relations and relations of production.; title: Pollet, E.; Winter, G. The social organisation of agricultural labour among the Soninke (Dyahunu, Mali).; title: De Sardan, J.-P. Marriage among the Wogo.; title: Augé, M. Status, power and wealth.