Autosubsistance, petite production marchande et chaînes de sociétés

J.-L. Amselle — Self-Subsistence, Small-Scale Merchant Production and Linked Societies. Comment and criticism of Roberts and Lovejoy, rejecting the theory of a purely ecological division of work, since the production of a number of the goods exchanged (e.g. gold, slaves...) was not bound by geographical constraints. Even when —as in the case of kola—such constraints did exist, they were but a necessary, not a sufncient condition for the existence of long-distance trade. Small-scale mer-chandise production seems to have been a widespread and significant factor in precolonial West African economy, not necessarily tied to the pre-existence of State or State-like politics. In fact, in some cases—such as that of the Brong— it is trade which resulted in the development of a State and not the other way round

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• Evidence of an Eleventh-Century AD Cola Nitida Trade into the Middle Niger Region

  Open Access•Nikolas Gestrich, L Champion et al.•African Archaeological Review•2021

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