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Economic anthropology

the idea that power and value are built by accumulating followers, dependents and their varied knowledge, rather than only material goods.

In economic anthropology, wealth in people refers to the idea that power and value are built by accumulating followers, dependents and their varied knowledge, rather than only material goods. This meaning comes from Guyer (1995) in The Journal of African History.[1]

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References

Guyer, J. I., & Belinga, S. M. E. (1995). Wealth in People as Wealth in Knowledge: Accumulation and Composition in Equatorial Africa. The Journal of African History, 36(1), 91-120. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700026992

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