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| Titre : |
Lineage money: extorsion, gift and redistribution |
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| Numéro : |
13 |
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| Année : |
1999 |
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| Volume : |
V |
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| Auteur(s) : |
Dominique DESJEUX |
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| Résumé : |
Based on two field studies, one carried out in the Congo on the Sundi community at the end of the 1970s focusing on dowry and land income and the other in France on the Corps des Mines at the end of the 1960s, the author suggests that the results have general applications that help explain the balance between meaning and interest that organizes all social life. The circulation of wealth, which may depend on both utility and gift-giving, works under a symbolic constraint, that of "witchcraft" and apparent lack of self-interest is encompassed within power relationships. Moreover, this circulation is embedded within a social relationship, that of networks - tribes in Africa, French national grands corps, guanxi in China, or the Ivy League in the United States - rather than functioning in a pure free market context. Paradoxically, democracy would require not reducing social actors to their meaning or their identity but rather adhering to a social analysis of their interests, which are negotiable. |
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| Pages : |
51 - 60 |
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| Type : |
Research paper |
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| Keywords : |
lineage, money, extorsion, gift, redistribution |
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