e have already been written. РWhile Maurice Godelier’s (1973/1977) Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology, Ángel РPalerm’s (1980) Antropología y marxismo, Marc Abélès’s (1976) Anthropologie et РMarxisme, and Randall McGuire’s (1992) A Marxist Archaeology are a few that Рcome immediately to mind, there are others as well.Р My first direct acquaintance with Marx’s writing occurred in 1959 in an intro-Рductory course in Western civilization with a selection from munist РManifesto. Two years later in Peru, I realized that broadly leftist newspaper writers Рin Peru provided accounts that better fit with my perceptions than those of their Рmore mainstream contemporaries, and that they gave me a clearer and deeper Рunderstanding of what was happening there at the time. Over the next five years in Р ix