Maidens, meal and money : capitalism and the domestic community
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Maidens, meal and money : capitalism and the domestic community
(Themes in the social sciences)
Cambridge University Press, 1981
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Femmes, greniers et capitaux
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Translation of Femmes, greniers et capitaux
Bibliography: p. 162-188
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 Cote 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.
Table of Contents
- Preface to the English translation
- Introduction
- Part I: The Domestic Community: 1. Locating the domestic community
- 2. Domestic reproduction
- 3. The alimentary structures of kinship
- 4. The dialectic of equality
- 5. Who are the exploited?
- 6. Contradictions and contacts: the premises of inequality
- Part II: The exploitation of the domestic community: imperialism as a mode of reproduction of cheap labour power: 7. The paradoxes of colonial exploitation
- 8. Direct and indirect wages
- 9. Primitive accumulation
- 10. Without hearth or home: the rural exodus
- 11. Periodic migration: the eternal return to the native land
- 12. The maintenance of labour-reserves
- 13. The double labour market and segregation
- 14. The profits from immigration
- 15. The limites of the over-exploitation of labour
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References cited
- Index.
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