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The Development of Indigenous Trade and Markets in West Africa - Couverture souple

Livre 38 sur 77: African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century

Meillassoux, Claude

 
9781138596641: The Development of Indigenous Trade and Markets in West Africa
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1138596647 ISBN 13 : 9781138596641
Editeur : Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Originally published in 1971 and written in English and French, with summaries in both languages, the essays in this volume dsicuss the effects of internal economic and political conditions and of external relations on the development of trade and markets in West Africa from the period of the slave trade to the growth in the 20th century in production for overseas markets and rapidly expanding urban centres. Other essays discuss various aspects of local and regional trade and markets from the nineteenth century onwards.

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À propos de l'auteur

Claude Meillassoux was a French neo-Marxist economic anthropologist and Africanist. Meillassoux, a student of Georges Balandier, did fieldwork among the Guro (Gouro) of the Côte d'Ivoire: his thesis was published in 1964. In the 1970s he criticised Marshall Sahlins's use of the notion of "domestic mode of production". Meillassoux was throughout his life a politically committed critic of social injustice

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138596647
ISBN 13 
9781138596641
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
456
Coordonnées du fabricant
Routledge
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