The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold

This controversial examination of precolonial African slavery looks at the various social systems that made slavery on such a scale possible and argues that the institutions of slavery were far more complex and pervasive than previously suspected.

History

Meillassoux, Claude

Africa

University of Chicago Press

For over twenty years, Claude Meillassoux has been concerned with the study of the different modes of production which existed in Africa prior to colonisation, and the ways in which they responded to colonisation. In this book Professor Meillassoux draws both on his extensive fieldwork in Africa and on the anthropological literature to provide a detailed theoretical analysis of the self-sustaining agricultural community and its articulation with capitalism through the process of colonisation. Using evidence from the usually separated disciplines of ethnology and economics, he explores the major contradiction created by the persistence within the heart of capitalism of the self-sustaining domestic community as a means of reproduction of labour power, and shows that in fact there is a logical connection between the kinship structures which control reproduction in such communities and the forms of exploitation of workers from groups dominated by imperialism. This book offers the elements both of an advanced theory of the domestic mode of production and of a radical critique of classical and structuralist anthropology. just as Professor Meillassoux's earlier work, L'Anthropologie iconomique des Gouro de Côte d'Ivoire was received as a 'turning point in the history of anthropology', this study, which goes beyond a discussion of concepts in an attempt to further the practical steps taken by Marx and Engels, represents a major contribution to the contemporary progress of historical materialism.

Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Community (Themes in the Social Sciences)

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Cambridge University Press

The Development of Indigenous Trade and Markets in West Africa: Studies Presented and Discussed at the Tenth International African Seminar at Fourah ... Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century)

Originally published in 1971 and written in English and French, with summaries in both languages, the essays in this volume dsicuss the effects of internal economic and political conditions and of external relations on the development of trade and markets in West Africa from the period of the slave trade to the growth in the 20th century in production for overseas markets and rapidly expanding urban centres. Other essays discuss various aspects of local and regional trade and markets from the nineteenth century onwards.

Reference

Routledge

Femmes, greniers et capitaux (Textes à l'appui) (French Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

F. Maspero

Femmes, greniers et capitaux (French Edition)

Editions L'Harmattan

En esta obra se analizan el conjunto del espacio economico esclavista que da forma al estado del esclavo, y las formas politicas y economicas que asume la esclavitud en los dos tipos de sociedad donde esta opera en africa: las aristocracias militares y las sociedades mercantiles.

Antropología de la esclavitud: El vientre de hierro y dinero (Spanish Edition)

Soler, Martí

Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A.

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