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System, Structure, and Contradiction
The Evolution of 'Asiatic' Social Formations
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2000
Summary
The first edition of System, Structure, and Contradiction was an important step in merging the materialist determinism of the structuralist Marxists with the cultural, ideological approach favored by anthropologists. By reconciling these two traditionally warring schools of thought, the author provided a more nuanced understanding of the various factors that drive social change and social complexity. Though viewed through the lens of an ethnographic and historical case study of the Kachin of Burman, Friedman's theory has had a major impact on the work of archaeologists, anthropologists, world-systems scholars, and Marxist theorists alike. This new edition of Friedman's much-cited work contains the full text of the original volume (never published in North America) along with two related articles by the author, and a comprehensive new introduction that brings his theoretical notions, and the debate over this book, to the present. A classic work of anthropological and social theory, it will be of interest to scholars and their advanced students in anthropology and related disciplines.
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Copyright year
2000
ISBN-Print
978-0-7619-8933-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-585-24659-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
357
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Table of Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Preface to the 1998 Edition No access
Preface No access
Chapter 1: Introduction No access Pages 43 - 53
Chapter 2: Specific Theory No access Pages 54 - 78
Chapter 3: Environment and Technology No access Pages 79 - 114
Chapter 4: The Kachin No access Pages 115 - 159
Chapter 5: Expansion and Contradiction No access Pages 160 - 201
Chapter 6: The Short Cycle and the Long Cycle No access Pages 202 - 237
Chapter 7: Evolution and Devolution No access Pages 238 - 301
Chapter 8: Conclusion No access Pages 302 - 307
Abbreviations/Bibliography No access Pages 308 - 325
Appendix I: Religion as Economy and Economy as Religion No access Pages 326 - 340
Appendix II: Generalized Change, Theocracy, and the Opium Trade No access Pages 341 - 357
