Claude Meillassoux (December 26, 1925 - January 3, 2005) was a French neo-Marxian economic anthropologist and Africanist.
Meillassoux, a student of Georges Balandier, did fieldwork among the Guro (Gouro) of the 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.
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Date of birth:
- Dec 26, 1925
Date of death:
- Jan 3, 2005 (age 79 years)
