The Anthropology of Slavery
Subtitle: The Womb of Iron and Gold
Contributors: Alide Dasnois (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780226519111
Subjects: Anthropology; Slavery & emancipation; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Africa; Anthropology - Cultural; Slavery; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Economic aspects; History; Slave-trade; Slaves; Social conditions
First sentence: 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.