Note: Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Online resource; title from pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed April 23, 2013) , Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences , Introduction :Critical versus ideological Marxism , Part I. An existential openingMarxist anthropology and the critique of everyday life , From discourse to silence : The structuralist impasse , Part II. The structuralist constraintEpistemological comments on the problems of comparing modes of production and societies , Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose : The dilemma of the French structural Marxists , Genetic epistemology, Marxism, and anthropology , On the dialectic of exogamic exchange , Part III. Primitive communism as theory and critiqueThe ethnological notebooks of Karl Marx : A commentary , The position of the primitive-communal social order in the Soviet-Marxist theory of history , Class, commodity, and the status of women , Problems of primitive society in Soviet ethnology , The anthropology of work , Living legal customs of the common people of Europe , Part IV. African perspectivesUrban ethnolgy in Africa : Some theoretical issues , Long-distance trade and the formation of the state : The case of the Abron Kingdom of Gyaman , "Tribal" elite : A base for social stratification in the Sudan , Feudalism in Nigeria , Part V. Ideological reflectionsBritish social anthropology , Reminiscences of primitive divisions of labor between sexes and age groups in the peasant folklore of modern times , The production of aesthetic values , The conscience of the West : Job and the trickster , Part VI. Some academic and bourgeois illusionsThe revolutionary potential of the Mexican peasant , Social evolution, population, and production , Population pressure and methods of cultivation : A critique of classless theory