| Titre | Processus de formation d'une classe sociale dans une société africaine précapitaliste. | |
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| Auteur | Roger Botte | |
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Revue | Cahiers d'études africaines |
| Numéro | Vol. 14, no 56, 1974 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Études et essais |
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| Page | 605-626 | |
| Résumé anglais |
R. Botte — ~~Social class formation in an African pre-capitalist society~~. In pre-colonial Burundi unequal economic relations, stemming especially from Mehrarbeit bound with landholding, allow for the appearance of a landless peasantry—i.e. a social class. Economic processes, based on the king's political control of landrights, may lead to dispossession, insofar as the control of men— expressed in actual ~~Mehrarbeit~~ is fundamentally based upon the control of land. ~~Mehrarbeit~~, especially in war, makes for subjects' reproduction qua freemen or self-sustaining peasants. Its refusai, demonstrated by the deliberate relinquishing of land and freedom, appears as an expression of antagonistic social relationships. When a landless peasant (~~umushumba~~) enters the service of a master (~~shebuja~~) this constitutes both a class- and a person-to-person relationship. According to the dominant ideology the ~~mushumba~~ becomes both a 'son', due to his introduction into the field of kinship/production relationships, and a useless person, insofar as his refusai of Mehrarbeit expresses his refusai to ensure the reproduction of the social system. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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