Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Critical versus Ideological Marxism / DIAMOND, STANLEY -- PART ONE An Existential Opening -- Marxist Anthropology and the Critique of Everyday Life / LEVINE, STEPHEN K. -- From Discourse to Silence: The Structuralist Impasse / SCHOLTE, BOB -- PART TWO The Structuralist Constraint -- Epistemological Comments on the Problems of Comparing Modes of Production and Societies / GODELIER, MAURICE -- Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose: The Dilemma of the French Structural Marxists / GOODFRIEND, DOUGLAS E. -- Genetic Epistemology, Marxism, and Anthropology / BERTHOUD, GERALD -- On the Dialectic of Exogamic Exchange / ROSSI-LANDI, FERRUCCIO -- PART THREE Primitive Communism as Theory and Critique -- The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx: A Commentary / KRADER, LAWRENCE -- The Position of the Primitive-Communal Social Order in the Soviet-Marxist Theory of History / DUNN, STEPHEN P. -- Class, Commodity, and the Status of Women / LEACOCK, ELEANOR -- Problems of Primitive Society in Soviet Ethnology / BROMLEY, YU. V. -- The Anthropology of Work / WELTFISH, GENE -- Living Legal Customs of the Common People of Europe / TÁRKÁNY-SZÜCS, ERNÓ -- PART FOUR African Perspectives -- Urban Ethnology in Africa: Some Theoretical Issues / MARIOTTI, AMELIA / MAGUBANE, BERNARD -- Long-Distance Trade and the Formation of the State: The Case of the Abron Kingdom of Gyaman / TERRAY, EMANUEL -- Feudalism in Nigeria / NZIMIRO, IKENNA -- PART FIVE Idealogical Reflections -- British Social Anthropology / ASAD, TALAL -- Reminiscences of Primitive Divisions of Labor Between Sexes and Age Groups in the Peasant Folklore of Modern Times / KATONA, IMRE -- The Production of Aesthetic Values / NEWCOMER, PETER JAY -- The Conscience of the West: Job and the Trickster / DIAMOND, STANLEY -- PART SIX Some Academic and Bourgeois Illusions -- The Revolutionary Potential of the Mexican Peasant / WARMAN, ARTURO -- Social Evolution, Population, and Production / FARIS, JAMES C. -- Population Pressure and Methods of Cultivation: A Critique of Classless Theory / NELL, EDWARD J. -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjectsweiterlesen