Karl Marx, Anthropologist
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...
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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 and classless societies to the roles of exploitation, alienation and domination in the making of social individuals, Karl Marx, Anthropologist is an essential guide to Marx's anthropological thought for the 21st century
Preface ixChronology xiIntroduction 1Polemics, Caveats, and Standpoints 3Organization of the Book 51 The Enlightenment and Anthropology 9Early Enlightenment Thought 10The New Anthropology of the Enlightenment 15The Institutionalization of Anthropology 232 Marx's Anthropology 39What are Human Beings? 41History 51Truth and Praxis 573 Human Natural Beings 65Charles Darwin and the Development of Modern Evolutionary Theory 67Human Natural Beings: Bodies That Walk, Talk, Make Tools, and Have Culture 74Marx on the Naturalization of Social Inequality 874 History, Culture, and Social Formation 91Marx's Historical-Dialectical Conceptual Framework 93Pre-Capitalist Societies: Limited, Local, and Vital 1055 Capitalism and the Anthropology of the Modern World 117The Transition to Capitalism and its Development 119The Articulation of Modes of Production 128Property, Power, and Capitalist States 1386 Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century 145Social Relations and the Formation of Social Individuals 147Anthropology: "The Study of People in Crisis by People in Crisis" 158Notes 173Bibliography 181Index 219
\ From the Publisher\ "This is a timely reminder of both the Enlightenment background and holistic nature of Marx' anthropology, which concerns not merely understanding classical industrial capitalism but also such diverse issues as the modern age of empire, human origins and non-Western political systems."--Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, University of Cambridge\ \
