Marxism, Culture and Anthropology. Gramsci, Thompson and Williams’s contributions

Abstract

In recent decades, with the neoliberal hegemony development, Marxism has been losing importance in academic circles. One of the way that dominant sectors ideologues have ousted Marxism was by playing a vulgarized same vision of reducing him to an economic´s theory determination. In this paper we propose to recover the three referents of Marxism (Gramsci, Thompson and Williams) thoughts who have subscribed to a critical perspective within the same emphasis on cultural studies. Besides we inquire into the relationship between their thoughts and the discipline that aims to study culture: anthropology. Through the literature review we developed two analysis levels. On one side, the discussions points of these authors with Marxist economism, the commonalities and differences between them and their main conceptual contributions in the construction of a critical Marxism. On the other side, we develop the influence of Gramsci in anthropology, which interpretations have been made by this author?, the role played by the British Marxism in these interpretations and the specific contributions that anthropology could make to build Marxism not economicist.

Keywords

• Gramsci
• Marxismo británico
• Cultura
• Antropología