An assessment of current trends in Marxist anthropology, this collection of essays reflects both the unifying force of Marxist thought and the diversity of contemporary anthropology.
An assessment of current trends in Marxist anthropology, this collection of essays reflects both the unifying force of Marxist thought and the diversity of contemporary anthropology. Linked by a common approacha shared commitment to Marxist analysisthe contributors look at a variety of phenomena, including the problems of labor and work, in terms
Introduction -- Rethinking Marxist Anthropology -- Studying Work:
Anthropological and Marxist Perspectives -- Sumer and the Indus Valley
Civilization Compared: towards an Historical Understanding of the Evolution
of Early States -- Nineteenth-Century Mormonism as a Partial Asiatic Social
Formation -- Ethnic Identity and Non-Capitalist Relations of Production in
Chimborazo, Ecuador1 -- The Waiting Proletariat: A New Industrial Labor Force
in Rural Maquilas -- Marketers as Producers: The Labor Process and
Proletarianization of Peruvian Marketwomen -- Gangs, Grassroots Politics, and
the Crisis of Dependent Capitalism in Jamaica -- Management by Participation:
the Division of Labour, Ideology and Contradiction in U.S. Firm -- Corporate
Hegemony and Industrial Restructuring in a New England Industrial City
David Hakken is chair of the Council for Marxist Anthropology and associate professor of anthropology, SUNY-College of Technology. Hanna Lessinger is a member of the Council for Marxist Anthropology and research associate at the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University.
