Payments, slavery and exploitation: elements of a trilogy

Paiements, esclavage et exploitation: éléments d'un triptyque

Christophe Darmangeat ()
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Christophe Darmangeat: LADYSS - Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LADYSS - Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPCité - Université Paris Cité

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Abstract: We are building a database dealing with 240 societies in order to evaluate the relationships between storage, slavery and payments. As a whole, the results confirm Alain Testart's statements. Payments stand as an overall reliable indication of the presence of wealth and exploitation; with very few rare exceptions, slavery is identified within this set of societies. In a materialistic perspective, we locate the technical-economical origin of payments not only in food storage but, more widely, in the production of movable and durable goods whose manufacturing require a large amount of work ("W goods").

Keywords: social anthropology; inequalities; storage; marxisme; Marxism; marriage payments; exploitation; stockage; anthropologie sociale; inégalités; compensation matrimoniale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-12
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Published in Cahiers d'Economie Politique = Papers in political economy, 2018, 2018/2 (75), pp.227-253

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