Abstract
This chapter applies Gramsci’s concept of hegemony to the study of Papua New Guinea religious movements, in particular, and to economic anthropology in general.1
Further work must surely focus on ‘people make their own history’ as well as acquiring a more rounded conception of the ‘but they do not make it exactly as they please’. (Aidan Foster-Carter, 1978, p. 243)
Sociology is therefore an attempt to define ‘experimentally’ the laws of evolution of human society as certainly as one may predict that an oak tree will develop out of an acorn. Vulgar evolutionism is at the root of sociology; and sociology cannot know the dialectical principle with its passage from quantity to quality, which confounds all evolution and all laws of uniformity as understood in a vulgar evolutionist sense. (Gramsci, 1975, p. 311)
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Schwimmer, E. (1987). Gramsci, History and the Future Economy. In: Clammer, J. (eds) Beyond the New Economic Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18733-1_4
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