The anthropology of slavery : the womb of iron and gold

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The anthropology of slavery : the womb of iron and gold

Claude Meillassoux ; translated by Alide Dasnois

University of Chicago Press, 1991

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Anthropologie de l'esclavage

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Anthropologie de l'esclavage

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Translation of: Anthropologie de l'esclavage

Bibliography: p. 376-404

Includes indexes

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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.

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