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9780860919032 | Reprint edition (Verso Books, May 1, 1988), cover price $24.95

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The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory. In this collection of essays, anthropologists who have worked in all parts of the Melanesian region of the Pacific bring their expertise to bear on a single theoretical issue. This is a hypothesis formulated by Maurice Godelier concerning the relationship between power, kinship and wealth. Although tightly focused on Godelier's work, the book opens up a major enquiry into the constitution of society in a part of the world where men of prominence come to personify the nature of power. 'Big men', entrepreneurs of exchanges, and 'great men', who flourish in societies characterised by restricted exchanges and ritual complexity, appear to belong to quite different systems. This book considers how substantial the difference between them really is.
By Maurice Godelier (editor) and Marilyn Strathern (editor)

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9780521390187 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $75.00 | also contains Classic Curry | About this edition: The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory.

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9780521102292 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 11, 2008), cover price $44.99

Hardcover:

9780226300443 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 3, 1999, cover price $70.00

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9780226300450 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 3, 1999, cover price $29.00

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Book by GODELIER MAURICE

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9781560987918 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Book by GODELIER MAURICE

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9781560987680 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $21.95

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9788449305252, titled "El enigma del don / the Enigma of the Gift" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, April 21, 1998, cover price $40.95

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What is the specificity of the human race within nature? How is its history to be explained? What impact do material realities, natural and man-made, have on human beings? What role does thought, in all its dimensions, play in the production of social relations? How are the human sciences to be advanced today?These are among the crucial questions confronted by Maurice Godelier, the world’s most distinguished Marxist anthropologist, in this key book of contemporary social theory. Its point of departure lies in a fact and a hypothesis. The fact: in contrast to other social animals, human beings do not just live in society, they produce society in order to live. The hypothesis: because they have the unique capacity to appropriate and transform nature, they produce culture and create history. Drawing on his own extensive fieldwork and ranging over the most diverse ethnographic data, Godelier substantiates his case by attending to the analysis of both social relations of production and the production of social relations. In a sustained challenge to currently dominant schemas, he offers a series of highly original theses on the constitution, reproduction and transformation of societies, recasting the distinction between infrastructure and superstructures, illuminating the relations between economic determination and political/ideological dominance, and clarifying the character of ideology and its central role in the perpetuation of dominance and exploitation.Theoretically ambitious and empirically rigorous, The Mental and the Material constitutes a great advance in the mode of production debate and demonstrates the enormous explanatory potential of historical materialism.

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9780860911364 | Verso Books, January 1, 1987, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: What is the specificity of the human race within nature?

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9781844677900 | Reprint edition (Verso Books, January 16, 2012), cover price $15.95

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9780521312127 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1985, cover price $69.99

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Employs Marxist concepts to study production, distribution, and consumption systems, focusing on the social factors that transform economic processes. Bibliogs

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9780853452768 | Monthly Review Pr, January 1, 1974, cover price $11.50 | About this edition: Employs Marxist concepts to study production, distribution, and consumption systems, focusing on the social factors that transform economic processes.

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9780853453499 | Monthly Review Pr, January 1, 1972, cover price $10.00

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