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Karl Marx, Anthropologist

By Thomas C. Patterson

Book information

Publisher
Berg Publishers
Year
2009
ISBN
1845205111, 9781845205119, 9781845205096, 184520509X
LCC
GN21.M2575 P38 2009
Open Library ID
OL11911619M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1283489 bytes)
Pages
237\237
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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

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