Économie marchande et structures sociales : le cas des Bete de Côte d'Ivoire.

J.-P. Dozon—Market Economy and Social Structures: the Bete of Ivory Coast. Economic change under the colonial rule has modified the rules of labour division among the Bete. Formerly agriculture was the province of women, the men confining themselves to the prestige activities of fighting and hunting. Nowadays both men and women take part in the plantation economy, male power being made manifest by the monopoly of sale. This may affect kinship and marriage relationships which, in some cases, are subordinated to the employer/employee relation. Male dominance is simultaneously perpetuated by the control of trade-crops and threatened by the disruption of lineage solidarity and the precariousness of marriage links.Dozon Jean-Pierre. Économie marchande et structures sociales : le cas des Bete de Côte d'Ivoire.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 17, n°68, 1977. pp. 463-483