Introduction
PART I
STRUCTURAL CAUSALITY IN ECONOMICS AND SOME IDEAS CONCERNING MARXISM AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Anthropology and economics
2 The concept of 'social and economic formation': the Inca example
3 The concept of the 'tribe': a crisis involving merely a concept or the empirical foundations of anthropology itself?
PART II
DEAD SECTIONS AND LIVING IDEAS IN MARX'S THINKING ON PRIMITIVE SOCIETY
4 An attempt at a critical evaluation
PART III
MONEY AND ITS FETISHES
5 'Salt money' and the circulation of commodities among the Baruya of New Guinea
6 Market economy and fetishism, magic and science according to Marx's Capital
PART IV
THE 'PHANTASMATIC' NATURE OF SOCIAL RELATIONS
7 Fetishism, religion and Marx's general theories conceming ideology
8 The non-correspondence between form and content in social relations
9 The visible and the invisible among the Baruya of New Guinea
10 Myth and History: reflections on the foundationsof the primitive mind
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