Antropologia do Desenvolvimento: Santiago de Cabo Verde, um estudo de caso

This article analyses the rural societie of Santiago island, Cape Verde, as selfreproducing system where different rationalities and multiple subsistence strategies are combined, and where relations of production range from auto-consumption to the market and from there to paid labour. According to t...

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Main Author: Carlos Ferreira Couto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa 2002-11-01
Series:Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cea/1092
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description This article analyses the rural societie of Santiago island, Cape Verde, as selfreproducing system where different rationalities and multiple subsistence strategies are combined, and where relations of production range from auto-consumption to the market and from there to paid labour. According to the author, the question posed is not that of the destruction of the domestic mode of production or of the capacity of social reproduction, but that of understanding how the latter fits into the mega-process of globalisation, intermediated by the «modernising» structures of foreign aid and the state, both imbued by a spirit of «assistance», and confronting the rural societies with constant dernands on their adaptation and transformation potential.
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spelling doaj.art-c95db46051854009b2d8619d42e0a62a2024-02-13T15:52:17ZengInstituto Universitário de LisboaCadernos de Estudos Africanos1645-37942182-74002002-11-01312714010.4000/cea.1092Antropologia do Desenvolvimento: Santiago de Cabo Verde, um estudo de casoCarlos Ferreira CoutoThis article analyses the rural societie of Santiago island, Cape Verde, as selfreproducing system where different rationalities and multiple subsistence strategies are combined, and where relations of production range from auto-consumption to the market and from there to paid labour. According to the author, the question posed is not that of the destruction of the domestic mode of production or of the capacity of social reproduction, but that of understanding how the latter fits into the mega-process of globalisation, intermediated by the «modernising» structures of foreign aid and the state, both imbued by a spirit of «assistance», and confronting the rural societies with constant dernands on their adaptation and transformation potential.https://journals.openedition.org/cea/1092Cape VerdeanthropologySantiago
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Antropologia do Desenvolvimento: Santiago de Cabo Verde, um estudo de caso
Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
Cape Verde
anthropology
Santiago
title Antropologia do Desenvolvimento: Santiago de Cabo Verde, um estudo de caso
title_full Antropologia do Desenvolvimento: Santiago de Cabo Verde, um estudo de caso
title_fullStr Antropologia do Desenvolvimento: Santiago de Cabo Verde, um estudo de caso
title_full_unstemmed Antropologia do Desenvolvimento: Santiago de Cabo Verde, um estudo de caso
title_short Antropologia do Desenvolvimento: Santiago de Cabo Verde, um estudo de caso
title_sort antropologia do desenvolvimento santiago de cabo verde um estudo de caso
topic Cape Verde
anthropology
Santiago
url https://journals.openedition.org/cea/1092
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