Table of Contents

Part 1: Empiricism and Historical Materialism1. Maurice Godelier Modes of Production, Kinship, and Demographic Structures2. Raymond Firth The Sceptical Anthropologist? Social Anthropology and Marxist Views on Society3. Stephan Feuchtwang Investigating ReligionPart 2: Class and Class Consciousness4. Emmanuel Terray Classes and Class Consciousness in the Abron Kingdom of Gyaman5. Joel Kahn Economic Scale and the Cycle of Petty Commodity Production in West SumatraPart 3: Dominance Determination and Evolution6. Jonathan Friedman Tribes, States, and Transformations7. Maurice Bloch Property and the End of Affinity