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| Title: | Hierarchy, equality and social change: exchange processes on a Seychelles plantation |
| Author: | Berge, Gunnvor |
| Year: | 1987 |
| Issue: | 12 |
| Pages: | 251 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oslo Occasional papers in social anthropology (ISSN 0333-2675) |
| City of publisher: | Oslo |
| Publisher: | Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo |
| Geographic term: | Seychelles |
| Subjects: | social structure agricultural workers coconuts |
| Abstract: | This study, which is based on fieldwork conducted in 1979-1980, analyses social relations on a coconut plantation on the island of Silhouette, the biggest plantation in the Seychelles. Chapter 1 describes the relationship between the Seychelles' environment and its economic, social and political development. Chapter 2 contains excerpts from field notebooks. Chapter 3 is a detailed study of hierarchical relations, focusing on the relationship between workers and management. The earlier patriarchal plantation idiom is compared to the more recent 'capitalist' idiom. Chapter 4 deals with plantation production and work. Chapter 5 treats negotiations between management and workers, from individual conflicts to collective protest and strikes. Chapters 6-8 deal with life in the black settlements, particularly with social exchanges, extra-plantation production, and material exchanges between workers. Chapter 9 throws light on the division of responsibility within worker households. Chapter 10 argues that structures revealed in the analysis of social relations on a plantation may illuminate processes taking place in the Seychelles society at large. |