Relations of Production : Marxist Approaches to Economic Anthropology

Preface / David Seddon -- Marxism and anthropology : a preliminary survey / Jean Copans, David Seddon - PART ONE : EXPLORATIONS IN THEORY - The objet and method of economic anthropology / Maurice Godelier -- "The economy" in agricultural self-sustaining societies : a preliminary analysis / Claude Meillassoux -- The social organisation of the peasantry : the economic basis of kinship / Claude Meillassoux -- Reflexions on the relevance of a theory of the history of exchange / Georges Dupré, Pierre Philippe Rey -- The concept of the "Asiatic Mode of Production" and marxist models of social evolution / Maurice Godelier - PARTE TWO : FIELDWORK IN AFRICA - Research on an African mode of production / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch -- Kinship relations and relations of production / Claude Meillassoux -- The social organisation of agricultural labour among the soninke (Dyahunu Mali) / Eric Pollet, Grace Winter -- Marriage among the Wogo / Jean Paul Olivier de Sardan -- Status power and walth : relations of lineage : dependence and production in Alladian society / Marc Augé.