Karl Marx, Anthropologist

Name: Karl Marx, Anthropologist
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ISBN: 9781845205119

ISBN-10: 1845205111

ISBN-13: 9781845205119

Edition: 2009

Authors: Thomas C. Patterson, Thomas Carl Patterson

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After being widely rejected in the late 20th century the work of Karl Marx is now being reassessed by many theorists and activists. Karl Marx, Anthropologist explores how this most influential of modern thinkers is still highly relevant for Anthropology today.Marx was profoundly influenced by critical Enlightenment thought. He believed that humans were social individuals that simultaneously satisfied and forged their needs in the contexts of historically particular social relations and created cultures. Marx continually refined the empirical, philosophical, and practical dimensions of his anthropology throughout his lifetime.Assessing key concepts, from the differences between class-based…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 4/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


Chronology


Introduction


Polemics, Caveats, and Standpoints


Organization of the Book



The Enlightenment and Anthropology


Early Enlightenment Thought


The New Anthropology of the Enlightenment


The Institutionalization of Anthropology



Marx's Anthropology


What are Human Beings?


History


Truth and Praxis



Human Natural Beings


Charles Darwin and the Development of Modern Evolutionary Theory


Human Natural Beings: Bodies That Walk, Talk, Make Tools, and Have Culture


Marx on the Naturalization of Social Inequality



History, Culture, and Social Formation


Marx's Historical-Dialectical Conceptual Framework


Pre-Capitalist Societies: Limited, Local, and Vital



Capitalism and the Anthropology of the Modern World


The Transition to Capitalism and its Development


The Articulation of Modes of Production


Property, Power, and Capitalist States



Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century


Social Relations and the Formation of Social Individuals


Anthropology: "The Study of People in Crisis by People in Crisis"


Notes


Bibliography


Index