Search results

Intro -- Contributors -- Preface -- The First Snake Song -- Factors of Musical Style -- Art Motifs and Prehistory in the Middle East -- Predatory Birds and Prehistoric Man -- Fusion and Separation: Archaeology and Ethnohistory in Southeastern North America -- Afro-Americans, Africa, and America -- Politics, Theory, and Racism in the Study of Black Children -- Women, Work, and Property in a South American Tribe -- Men and Women in Arab Peasant to Proletariat Transformation -- The Dominant Dyad: Mother-Right and the Iroquois Case -- A Continent Found, A Universe Lost -- Encounter in the Field -- The Periodization of World History According to Karl Marx -- Theory, Practice, and Poetry in Vico -- Boas on the Kwakiutl: The Ethnographic Tradition -- Anthropology Begins at Home: Reflections of a Daughter -- Some Salient Events in the Professional Life of Gene Weltfish -- Selected Bibliography of Gene Weltfish.

Intro -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Critical versus Ideological Marxism -- PART ONE: AN EXISTENTIAL OPENING -- Marxist Anthropology and the Critique of Everyday Life -- From Discourse to Silence: The Structuralist Impasse -- PART TWO: THE STRUCTURALIST CONSTRAINT -- Epistemological Comments on the Problems of Comparing Modes of Production and Societies -- Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: The Dilemma of the French Structural Marxists -- Genetic Epistemology, Marxism, and Anthropology -- On the Dialectic of Exogamic Exchange -- PART THREE: PRIMITIVE COMMUNISM AS THEORY AND CRITIQUE -- The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx: A Commentary -- The Position of the Primitive-Communal Social Order in the Soviet-Marxist Theory of History -- Class, Commodity, and the Status of Women -- Problems of Primitive Society in Soviet Ethnology -- The Anthropology of Work -- Living Legal Customs of the Common People of Europe -- PART FOUR: AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES -- Urban Ethnology in Africa: Some Theoretical Issues -- Long-Distance Trade and the Formation of the State: The Case of the Abron Kingdom of Gyaman -- "Tribal" Elite: A Base for Social Stratification in the Sudan -- Feudalism in Nigeria -- PART FIVE: IDEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS -- British Social Anthropology -- Reminiscences of Primitive Divisions of Labor Between Sexes and Age Groups in the Peasant Folklore of Modern Times -- The Production of Aesthetic Values -- The Conscience of the West: Job and the Trickster -- PART six: SOME ACADEMIC AND BOURGEOIS ILLUSIONS -- The Revolutionary Potential of the Mexican Peasant -- Social Evolution, Population, and Production -- Population Pressure and Methods of Cultivation: A Critique of Classless Theory -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.