System, Structure, and Contradiction The

The first edition of System, Structure, and Contradiction was an important step in combining materialist and cultural approaches in a larger framework of social reproduction. 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.

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Preface to the 1998 Edition	p. 11
Preface	p. 31
Introduction	p. 43
Specific Theory	p. 54
Environment and Technology	p. 79
The Kachin	p. 115
Expansion and Contradiction	p. 160
The Short Cycle and the Long Cycle	p. 202
Evolution and Devolution	p. 238
Conclusion	p. 302
Abbreviations	p. 308
Bibliography	p. 308
Religion as Economy and Economy as Religion	p. 326
Notes to Appendix I	p. 338
References to Appendix I	p. 339
Generalized Change, Theocracy, and the Opium Trade	p. 341
References to Appendix II	p. 355
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System, Structure, and Contradiction The Evolution of 'Asiatic' Social Formations

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