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Some reflections on anthropological structural Marxism
Author(s) -
Nugent Stephen
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of the royal anthropological institute
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1467-9655
pISSN - 1359-0987
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2007.00434.x
Subject(s) - relevance (law) , sociology , epistemology , anthropology , isolation (microbiology) , philosophy , political science , law , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
The primary topic in this discussion is the brief career of anthropological structural Marxism and the possibility of its continued relevance. That issue is framed by a more general one: on what basis are explanatory theories adopted and discarded in anthropology? The discussion of structural Marxism is framed within recent debates about the desirability of socio‐cultural anthropology's traditional associations with other sub‐fields of anthropology, and it is argued that the isolation of sub‐fields is a regressive theoretical move.