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by Claude Meillassoux; Alide Dasnois (Translator)

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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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A previous study suggested the hypothesis that contradictions within domestic society led to a hierarchization of lineages and to political domination by some lineages over others, rather than to the emergence of slavery.

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  • Title The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold
  • Author Claude Meillassoux; Alide Dasnois (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition &
  • Pages 422
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1992-01-01
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
  • ISBN 9780226519128 / 0226519120
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.41 x 5.46 x 0.98 in (21.36 x 13.87 x 2.49 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
  • Category Archaeology / Anthropology
  • Library of Congress subjects Slave-trade - Africa - History, Slavery - Economic aspects - Africa - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91018852
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.362

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Claude Meillassoux is directeur de recherches and head of the Section on Rural Societies and Development Politics at the CNRS in France.
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