ABSTRACT The four books under review are all more or less explicitly critical of the impact of post-modernism on socio-cultural anthropology and archaeology. They all call for the building of anthropology by reconnecting to the earlier traditions of structural and comparative analysis. Although spanning both socio-cultural anthropology and archaeology, they set the focus clearly on the pervasive influence of inequality on social processes. The different authors demonstrate the explanatory power of concepts such as class, surplus, inequality, and structure for a multitude of contexts from prehistoric foragers to neo-liberal market ideologies.

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不平等与人类学结构的回归

摘要所审查的四本书或多或少地明确批评了后现代主义对社会文化人类学和考古学的影响。他们都呼吁通过重新结合结构和比较分析的早期传统来建设人类学。尽管涵盖了社会文化人类学和考古学，但它们明确地将重点放在了不平等对社会进程的普遍影响上。不同的作者针对从史前觅食者到新自由主义市场意识形态的多种情况展示了阶级，剩余，不平等和结构等概念的解释力。