An edition of Slavery in Africa (1977)

Slavery in Africa

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An edition of Slavery in Africa (1977)

Slavery in Africa

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This collection of sixteen short papers, together with a complex and very much longer introductory essay by the editors on "African 'Slavery' as an Institution of Marginality," constitutes an impressive attempt by anthropologists and historians to explore, describe, and analyze some of the various kinds of human bondage within a number of precolonial African societies. It is important to note that in spite of the precolonial emphasis of the volume, all of the essays are based at least partly on anthropological or ethnohistorical field research carried out since 1959. All but one have been augmented greatly by more conventional historical research in published as well as archival sources. And although the volume's focus is upon the structures and conditions of servitude within the several African societies described, many of the essays illustrate, and some discuss, the conceptual as well as the practical difficulties of separating the institutions and customs of "domestic" African slavery from those of the European dominated commercial slave trade in which many of the societies participated. -- from JSTOR http://www.jstor.org (May 24, 2013).

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Slavery in Africa: historical and anthropological perspectives
1977, University of Wisconsin Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographies and index.

Published in
Madison

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Dewey Decimal Class
301.44/93/0967
Library of Congress
HT1427.S8 S58, HT1427.S8

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 474 p. :
Number of pages
474

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Open Library
OL4906119M
Internet Archive
slaveryinafricah0000unse
ISBN 10
0299073300
LCCN
76053653
OCLC/WorldCat
2968378
Library Thing
1341057
Goodreads
1929058

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