Barthélémy, Le pays en dehors — Chapter Notes See also: barthelemy pays en dehors (source overview)

Barthélémy, Le pays en dehors — Chapter Notes See also: barthelemy pays en dehors (source overview) Overview of Barthélémy's Contribution Gérard Barthélémy is, as Jean Casimir noted, "particularly precious" because he was the first scholar to seriously engage Casimir's counter-plantation thesis from an anthropological fieldwork perspective. Where Casimir's La Cultura Oprimida (1980) approached the counter-plantation sociologically — focusing on the structural role of the state in subordinating the peasantry — Barthélémy descends into the daily material and cultural practices of rural Haitian communities to show how counter-plantation logic is reproduced at the level of individual behavior, family organization, religious practice, labor exchange, and land tenure. His key reorientation: whereas Casimir focused on the state as the primary antagonist, Barthélémy focuses on the bossale (African-born captive) as the primary social actor.