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INDICATIVE MARXISM AND ANTHROPOLOGY READING LIST

Asad, T. (ed). 1973. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter. London: Ithaca.
Asad, T. 1983. ‘Anthropological Conceptions of Religion: Reflections on Geertz’ in Man Vol. 18, No. 2.
Bloch, M. 1983. Marxism and Anthropology. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
Bloch, M. 1986. From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar.
          Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bloch, M. 1989. ‘Symbols, Song, Dance and Features of Articulation: Is Religion an Extreme Form of Traditional Authority?’ in
          Ritual, History, Power: Selected Papers in Anthropology. London: Athlone Press.
Comaroff, J. & Comaroff, J. 1992. Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. Boulder, Co: Westview Press.
Godelier, M. 1977. ‘Fetishism, Religion and Marx’s General Theories Concerning Ideology’ in Perspectives in Marxist
         Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Morris, B. 1987. Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Scott, J. C. 1985. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. Taussig, M. 1977. ‘The Genesis of Capitalism Amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil’s Labour and the Baptism of Money’
          in Comparative Studies in Society and History Vol. 19, No. 2.
Taussig, M. 1987. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing. Chicago & London: University of
          Chicago Press.
Tsing, A. L. 2005. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press.