Marxist Approaches in Economic Anthropology

by Alice Littlefield

The best of current thinking in Marxist anthropology on the inter-relationships of economies, polities, and kinship systems is encompassed in these eleven papers by fourteen authors. Part I, Petty Production, targets petty producers in diverse political-economic contexts ranging from the linen industry in eighteenth-century Northern Ireland to entrepreneurship in contemporary China. Part II, Kinship in Political Economy, analyzes the consequences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819179272
• ISBN13: 9780819179272
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.7"