The anthropology of slavery
Subtitle: the womb of iron and gold
By: Claude Meillassoux ; translated by Alide Dasnois.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: Slaves -- Africa -- Social conditions -- History; Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Africa -- History; Slave-trade -- Africa -- History; Social structure -- Africa -- History
Description: "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"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-404) and indexes.
Translation of: Anthropologie de lʼesclavage.