Old Modes Of Production and Capitalist Encroachment

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-99460-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Japanese Studies (Kegan)

First published in 1985. This book is the result of a long series of meetings of the Amsterdam Work-group for Marxist Anthropology, extending over a number of years starting from 1977. It has some changes and expansions from the original Dutch version.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Van

Van Binsbergen, Wim

Geschiere, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on contributors, Preface, 1. Introduction: Emerging insights and issues in French Marxist anthropology, 2. Demographic developments and class contradictions in a 'domestic' community: The Nyakyusa (Tanzania) before the colonial conquest, 3. Articulation of modes of production and the beginning of labour migration among the Diola of Senegal, 4. Imposing capitalist dominance through the state: The multifarious role of the colonial state in Africa, 5. African literature between nostalgia and Utopia: African novels since 1953 in the light of the modes-of-production approach, 6. From tribe to ethnicity in western Zambia: The unit of study as an ideological problem, 7. Marxist theory and anthropological practice: The application of French Marxist anthropology in field-work, 8. Analytic tools, intellectual weapons: The discussion among French Marxist anthropologists about the identification of modes of production in Africa, Index of authors, Subject index

Über Autor(innen)

Wim van Binsbergen (1947) read social and cultural anthropology and Third World sociology at the Municipal University of Amsterdam. Peter Geschiere (1941) read history and social-cultural anthropology at the Free University, Amsterdam, where he also received his doctorate.