Serfs, Peasants, and Socialists: A Former Serf Village in the Republic of GuineaThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973. |
Contents
Two Geography and History | 7 |
THREE Fulbe Society | 57 |
FOUR The Economy of the FoutaDjallon | 121 |
FIVE Political Organization | 173 |
Six Ideology | 192 |
SEVEN Conclusions | 237 |
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adult affines Africa age-mates Allah alluwal almamy animals asked boys bride bridewealth brothers cattle chef de canton chiefly lineage child circumcision clitoridectomy colonial rule committee compound Conakry cultivated Diallonke divorce economic elders farilla father fields fonio former serf villages Fouta Fouta-Djallon francs French Fulbe and former Fulbe and serf Fulbe society Fulbe village Fulfulde girl goats Guinea harvest Hoore Tane husband important individual Islam karamoko kin groups kinsmen kola kola nuts Koran Labe labor land live maize major lineage major patrilineage Malinke manioc marriage married master matrilateral kindred maximal patrilineages mbiledyo meat merchants minimal lineage misside chief mosque mother naming ceremony obligations older organization peasantry peasants political Popodara population precolonial province chief Ramadan religious leaders role sell Senegal serfdom sheep slaughtered social sorcerers status taro taxes tierno tion traditional village of Hollaande wife wives woman women women's gardens young