The anthropology of slavery : the womb of iron and gold
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Bibliographic Information
The anthropology of slavery : the womb of iron and gold
Athlone, 1991
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Anthropologie de l'esclavage
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Anthropologie de l'esclavage
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Translation of: Anthropologie de l'esclavage
Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-404) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study of the institution and system of slavery was first published in France in 1986. Drawing upon his knowledge of African society, Professor Meillassoux provides an analysis of the reproduction of the social order in societies relying heavily on slavery: within tribes, marauding bands and nations, and between the classes and sexes. He also examines the rivalry between military and aristocratic groupings and the merchant classes who conducted the slave trade.
Table of Contents
- Kin and Aliens. Part 1 The historical dimensions of slavery in West Africa
- extraneousness
- sterility
- profits and accumulation
- unborn and reprieved from death
- promotion of slaves
- half-breed slaves
- revenge of the anti-kin. Part 2 A slavery and power - the coming of the brigands
- the great task of the Kings
- the divine court
- the war economy - cases
- analyses. Part 3 The land of the merchants
- the spread of slavery within peasantry
- forms of exploitation
- the internal market for slaves
- to buy or to breed?
- the disintegration of slavery.
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