Claude Meillassoux
French neo-Marxist economic anthropologist and Africanist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Claude Meillassoux (/ˌmeɪəˈsuː/; French: [mɛjasu]; December 26, 1925 – January 3, 2005) was a French neo-Marxist economic anthropologist and Africanist. A student of Georges Balandier, he did fieldwork among the Guro (Gouro) of Côte d'Ivoire; his thesis was published in 1964. In the 1970s he criticised Marshall Sahlins's use of the notion of "domestic mode of production". Meillassoux was throughout his life a politically committed critic of social injustice.