Claude Meillassoux is a anthropologist French born on December 26th, 1925 and dead on January 2nd, 2005.

He is the author of many articles in the reviews Cahiers of African studies , the Man and the company , the Man , Économie and Sociétés , Journal of the Company of the Africanists , Anthropologie and Sociétés or the Ethnography .

Claude Meillassoux studied much the economic systems of the companies pre-capitalists by using the Marxist concepts of Infrastructure, Superstructure or historical Matérialisme. He has as a conviction that the mechanisms of domination and exchange are present in any human society.

He falls under the movement of the Anthropologie of the release far from the dominant thoughts functionalist and structuralist in anthropology in second half of the 20th century.

difference of nature or gasoline between primitive companies and complex companies, Claude Meillassoux held highly that the human society forms a homogeneous and continuous unit, and that their specificities are only variations on a common topic, provided by the unit of mankind.

He worked in Coast-D' Ivory and in Mali, of course, but it was also interested, and of very close, with the Pygmies, South Africa, the Indian castes, Inuit, the Inka royalty.

directed by him, that it is the conference of Freetown on the African trade, celebrates it “Meillassoux seminar” of the street of Tournon or the ERA 501 of CNRS *e - “Imperialism ace has mode off reproduction off ploughing power”, Colloque of Bielefeld, Dec. 1972,20 p. dact. -->

Some works

• economic Anthropology of Gouro of Ivory Coast: saving in subsistence to commercial agriculture , 1964, Sheep, Paris, 382  p.
• Evolution of the African trade since the 19th century in West Africa , 1971, Oxford Univ. Near, Oxford, 444 p.
• Which nourishes famine in Africa? , 1974, Maspero, Paris
• Slavery in Africa précoloniale , 1975, Maspero, Paris, 582 p.
• Women, attics and capital , 1975, Paris, Maspero. 254 p.
• Grounds and Théories , 1977, Anthropos, Paris, 344 p (collection of 11 articles)
• Theory of the family community, an economic topic of anthropology , 1977, Chikuma Shobo, Tokyo, 283 p
• last White: the South-African model , 1979, Maspero, Paris, 311 p.
• Anthroplogie of slavery, the money and iron belly, 1986, Paris, PUF, 375 p.
• social Genius and cultural handling in Africa of apartheid , 1991, Paris, Arcantère, 314p.
• Spectra of Malthus , 1991, Paris, EDI-ORSTOM- CEPED, 442 p.
• economy of the life: Demography of work , 1997, Stitched, 166 p.
• Myths and limits of anthropology , 2001, Stitched, 479 p

External bonds

• article in homage to died of C. Meillassoux (re-examined in the opposition ) * article in homage to died of C. Meillassoux (re-examined the Man ) * Photographs of Claude Meillassoux