Slavery in Africa : historical and anthropological perspectives / edited by Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff.
| Other author | Miers, Suzanne. |
| Other author | Kopytoff, Igor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1977. |
| Description | xvii, 474 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | French equivalent / Équivalent français |
| Subjects |
| Contents | African 'Slavery' as an Introduction of Marginality / Igor Kopytoff and Suzanne Miers -- Mafakur: A Limbic Institution of the Margi (Nigeria) / James H. Vaughan -- Slavery and Social Stratification among the Sena of Mozambique: A Study of the Kaporo System / Barbara Isaacman and Allen Isaacman -- Slaves and Slavery in Igboland, Nigeria / Victor C. Uchendu -- Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Aboh (Nigeia) / K. Nwachukwu-Ogedengbe -- Slavery and the Evolution of Nineteenth-Century Damagaram (Zinder, Miger) / Roberta Ann Dunbar |
| Contents | Wono: Institutionalized Dependency in Sherbro Descent Groups (Sierra Leone) / Carol P. MacCormack -- Imbangala Lineage Slavery (Angola) / Joseph C. Miller -- Economic and Social Dimensions of Kongo Slavery (Zaire) / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Changing Forms of Servitude among the Kerebe of Tanzania / Gerald W. Hartwig -- Slavery and Economic Response among the Vai (Liberia and Sierra Leone) / Svend E. Holsoe -- Slavery among Coastal Middlemen: The Duala of Cameroon / Ralph A. Austen |
| Contents | Servitude among the Wolof and Sereer of Senegambia / Martin A. Klein -- Servility and Political Control: Botlhanka among the BaTawana of Northwestern Botswana, ca. 1750-1906 / Thomas Tlou -- Tuareg of the Central Sudan: Gradations in Servility at the Desert Edge (Niger and Nigeria) / Stephen Baier and Paul E. Lovejoy -- Slavery and Emancipation among the Mende in Sierra Leone, 1896-1928 / John J. Grace -- Responses to Dependence in a Servile Group: The Machube of Northern Benin / Bernd Baldus. |
| Abstract | 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) |
| Local note | Little-97345 - $17.50 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Slavery in Africa. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1977 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 76053653 |
| ISBN | 0299073300 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780299073305 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0299073343 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780299073343 (pbk.) |