Structural and Eclectic Revisions of Marxist Strategy: A Cultural Materialist Critique [and Comments and Reply]

Hunter-Gatherers

“…Structural Marxism is, as the name implies, an approach that combines certain elements of Lévi-Straussian structuralism with Marxism (Berger 1976;Bloch 1983). As we shall see, it differs from mainstream Marxism in putting more emphasis on the social relations of production (i.e., social claims on production and distribution), which it casts in a dominant role, than on the forces of production, which is almost certainly what Marx believed to be the forge of most cultural causation (Pasquinelli 1983, pp.…”

An anthropological emic‐etic perspective on open access practices

“…There is also research interest in general philosophical questions pertaining to the outcomes of etic considerations. Although emics and etics are sometimes regarded as inherently in conflict and one can be preferred to the exclusion of the other (Berger, 1976; Feleppa, 1986; Geertz, 1975, Quine, 1970), the complementarity of emic and etic approaches to anthropological research has been widely recognized, especially in the areas of interest concerning the characteristics of human nature as well as the form and function of human social systems.…”

Emics/etics revisitado: “nativo” e “antropólogo” lutam pela última palavra

“…Enquanto os materialistas culturais estavam mais preocupados com a exploração e a opressão das massas camponesas e das classes pobres urbanas, com o sexismo, o racismo, o etnocentrismo e a mistificação cultural, "os tagmemicistas trabalhavam para alargar o Reino [através da missionação]" (Murray 1990: 145). A utilização da dicotomia emic/etic por Barris abriu caminho a uma luta entre defensores (Berger 1976;Langness 1987: 133-136;Marano 1982) e detractores (Burling 1969: 826-827;Fisher e Werner 1978;Goodenough 1980: 112-114;Howard 1968;Merrifield 1968) da interpretação materialista cultural. Outros procuraram clarificar as diferenças entre os usos que Pike e Harris faziam da dicotomia emic/etic (Arnold 1971: 22;Durbin 1972: 384-385;Feleppa 1986Feleppa : 244-245, 1988Fisher e Werner 1978;Jahoda 1977Jahoda , 1983Kensinger 1975: 72-73;Lett 1987;Peito 1970: 67-86).…”