Is Marxism a reflection of the conceptual system it fights against, rather than a truly comprehensive approach to human history? Drawing on recent work in anthropology, history, and philosophy, Donald Donham confronts this problem in analyzing a radically different social order: the former Maale kingdom of southern Ethiopia. "Every once in a while there appears a book that ...opens up new ways of inquiring into the ways of the world. Donald Donham has written such a book. The style is quiet and judicious, but the effect is stunning...In putting inherited partisan approaches to the test of explaining the realities of Maale society and culture, Donham enriches anthropology and imparts new vigor to the analytical Marxian traditions. "History, Power, Ideology" embodies a major accomplishment". (From the Foreword).
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Is Marxism a reflection of the conceptual system it fights against, rather than a truly comprehensive approach to human history? Drawing on work in anthropology, history, and philosophy, this title confronts this problem in analyzing a radically different social order: the former Maale kingdom of southern Ethiopia.
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Foreword  Preface to the 1999 edition Preface  Introduction  1. Homo economicus: A Maale mystery 2. Epochal structures I: Reconstructing historical materialism 3. Epochal structures II: An anatomy of Maale production 4. History at one point in time: "Working together" in Bola, 1975 Conclusion  Appendix: Predicting the past from the future Bibliography  Index 
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"Among the most impressive contributions to social anthropology and Marxist social theory in recent memory. . . . It deserves a central place in contemporary anthropological literature"

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ISBN
9780520213371
Publisert
1999-06-27
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
Vekt
408 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Foreword by
Preface by

Biographical note

Donald L. Donham is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University and author of Work and Power in Maale, Ethiopia (1994). Eric R. Wolf is author of Europe and the People without History (California, 1982).