What is it about?
A study of a contemporary slave-owning society in Benin, West Africa (formerly Dahomey).
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Why is it important?
The study explores a complex ways in which an inequality structure can be maintained over time. In this case the stability of the owner-slave relationship rested largely on a belief sytem which the slaves had created themselves. No coercion or direct intervention by owners was required.
Perspectives
The arrticle was based on research for my dissertation. It was the beginning of my interest in the origins and endurance of inequalitty structures.
Professor Bernd Baldus
University of Toronto
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This page is a summary of: Social Structure and Ideology: Cognitive and Behavioral Responses to Servitude among the Machube of Northern Dahomey, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, January 1974, JSTOR,
DOI: 10.2307/483772.
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