Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Community by Claude Meillas

Description: Maidens, Meal and Money by Claude Meillassoux For over twenty years, Claude Meillassoux has been concerned with the study of the different modes of production which existed in Africa prior to colonisation, and the ways in which they responded to colonisation. In this book Professor Meillassoux draws both on his extensive fieldwork in Africa and on the anthropological literature to provide a detailed theoretical analysis of the self-sustaining agricultural community and its articulation with capitalism through the process of colonisation. Using evidence from the usually separated disciplines of ethnology and economics, he explores the major contradiction created by the persistence within the heart of capitalism of the self-sustaining domestic community as a means of reproduction of labour power, and shows that in fact there is a logical connection between the kinship structures which control reproduction in such communities and the forms of exploitation of workers from groups dominated by imperialism. This book offers the elements both of an advanced theory of the domestic mode of production and of a radical critique of classical and structuralist anthropology. just as Professor Meillassoux??'s earlier work, L'Anthropologie iconomique des Gouro de C??te d???Ivoire was received as a ???turning point in the history of anthropology???, this study, which goes beyond a discussion of concepts in an attempt to further the practical steps taken by Marx and Engels, represents a major contribution to the contemporary progress of historical materialism. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description For over twenty years, Claude Meillassoux has been concerned with the study of the different modes of production which existed in Africa prior to colonisation, and the ways in which they responded to colonisation. In this book Professor Meillassoux draws both on his extensive fieldwork in Africa and on the anthropological literature to provide a detailed theoretical analysis of the self-sustaining agricultural community and its articulation with capitalism through the process of colonisation. Using evidence from the usually separated disciplines of ethnology and economics, he explores the major contradiction created by the persistence within the heart of capitalism of the self-sustaining domestic community as a means of reproduction of labour power, and shows that in fact there is a logical connection between the kinship structures which control reproduction in such communities and the forms of exploitation of workers from groups dominated by imperialism. This book offers the elements both of an advanced theory of the domestic mode of production and of a radical critique of classical and structuralist anthropology. just as Professor Meillassouxs earlier work, LAnthropologie iconomique des Gouro de Côte dIvoire was received as a turning point in the history of anthropology, this study, which goes beyond a discussion of concepts in an attempt to further the practical steps taken by Marx and Engels, represents a major contribution to the contemporary progress of historical materialism. Table of Contents Preface to the English translation; Introduction; Part I: The Domestic Community: 1. Locating the domestic community; 2. Domestic reproduction; 3. The alimentary structures of kinship; 4. The dialectic of equality; 5. Who are the exploited?; 6. Contradictions and contacts: the premises of inequality; Part II: The exploitation of the domestic community: imperialism as a mode of reproduction of cheap labour power: 7. The paradoxes of colonial exploitation; 8. Direct and indirect wages; 9. Primitive accumulation; 10. Without hearth or home: the rural exodus; 11. Periodic migration: the eternal return to the native land; 12. The maintenance of labour-reserves; 13. The double labour market and segregation; 14. The profits from immigration; 15. The limites of the over-exploitation of labour; Conclusion; Notes; References cited; Index. Details ISBN0521297087 Author Claude Meillassoux Short Title MAIDENS MEAL & MONEY Pages 212 Publisher Cambridge University Press Series Themes in the Social Sciences Language English ISBN-10 0521297087 ISBN-13 9780521297080 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1981 Translator Felicity Edholm Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Capitalism and the Domestic Community Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from French Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises DOI 10.1604/9780521297080 UK Release Date 1981-03-05 AU Release Date 1981-03-05 NZ Release Date 1981-03-05 Publication Date 1981-03-05 DEWEY 306.30966 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:91378427;

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