Marxism in the horizon

An essay on Maurice Godelier

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3104483
AutoresSusana Narotzky (0000-0001-7390-7840, Universitat de Barcelona, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume47
Fascículo4
Páginas377-390
Data de publicação2023-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDialectical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0304-4092 • E-ISSN: 1573-0786
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10624-023-09709-5
OpenAlexW4389225568
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas14

With his systematic review and methodical discussion of other scholars' works, Godelier constructed a theory of Marxism that "made sense" in the empirical worlds of anthropology, while preserving the main tenets of historical materialism and dialectical materialism. From his writings in the 1970s, his workshops on "transition," and his seminars at the CNRS in the early 1980s, we learned to think theoretically about our ethnographic material, and to do it within a framework that referred to Marx. For us, on the one hand, Godelier provided a Marxist theory that respected the value of concrete ethnography, and on the other hand, explored the issue of transitions from one system to another, while thinking about the future, a passage to a better system, probably socialist

Dialectic · Dialectical materialism · Historical materialism · Materialism · Value (mathematics · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · French Urban and Social Studies