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Property Relations, Production Relations, and Inequality: Anthropology, Political Economy, and the Blackfeet

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Property Relations, Production Relations, and Inequality: Anthropology, Political Economy, and the Blackfeet
Author(s)Nugent, David
AbstractPolitical-economic concepts that privilege production over other dimensions of social life are inappropriate to the study of non-Western societies. Concepts suitable for non-Western societies must be based on the institutional specificity of those societies, just as production-based concepts (forces and relations of production) derive their analytical value from the institutional structure of industrial capitalism. In this article, ‘property relations’ is advanced as such a concept and is used to explain the emergence of inequality from egalitarian social relations among the Blackfeet Indians on the northern plains of North America.
IssueNo2
Pages336-362
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceAmerican Ethnologist
VolumeNo20
PubDateMay 1993
ISBN_ISSN0094-0496


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