System, Structure, and Contradiction: The Evolution of 'Asiatic' Social Formations

by Jonathan Friedman

Book Overview

The first edition of System, Structure, and Contradiction was an important step in merging the materialist determinism of the structuralist Marxists with the cultural, ideological approach favored by anthropologists. By reconciling these two traditionally warring schools of thought, the author provided a more nuanced understanding of the various factors that drive social change and social complexity. Though viewed through the lens of an ethnographic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076198934X
• ISBN13: 9780761989349
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"