Maidens, Meal, and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Community

by Claude Meillassoux

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521297087
• ISBN13: 9780521297080
• Release Date: April 1981
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"