System, structure, and contradiction
Subtitle: the evolution of "Asiatic" social formations
By: Jonathan Friedman.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Kachin (Asian people) -- Social conditions.; Kachin (Asian people) -- Economic conditions.; Social structure -- Burma.; Social change -- Burma.; Asiatic mode of production -- Burma.; Marxist anthropology -- Burma.; Burma -- Social conditions.
Description: "The first edition of System, Structure, and Contradiction was an important step in combining materialist and cultural approaches in a larger framework of social reproduction. This new edition of Friedman's much-cited work contains the full text of the original volume - never published in North America - along with two related articles by the author, and a comprehensive new introduction that brings his theoretical notions, and the debate over this book, to the present.

A classic work of anthropological and social theory, it will be of interest to scholars and their advanced students in anthropology and related disciplines."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-356).
A revision of the author's thesis, Columbia, 1972.