Da areia ao gado: meninos empreendedores rurais no Haiti

Nadège Mézié

doi:10.15448/1984-7289.2018.2.29601

Authors

Nadège Mézié Faculté de Sciences Humaines et Sociales da Université Paris Descates em Paris, França. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0850-8020

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2018.2.29601

Keywords:

Children. Haiti. Work. Sand quarries. Economical anthropology.

Abstract

This article describes the work of boys, aged 7 to 13, in a quarry in the Grand’Anse region of Haiti. The boys, whose families are considered very poor, engage in this activity on their own initiative and carry it out with very little adult supervision. Entering what I call a “capitalization cycle”, they save most of the money to buy and breed animals – chickens, goats, an ox – and by proceeding this way, after 8 to 10 years, they can manage to buy a plot of land, which is perceived by the local peasants as the gateway to adulthood.

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Author Biography

Nadège Mézié, Faculté de Sciences Humaines et Sociales da Université Paris Descates em Paris, França.

Doutora em Antropologia pela Université Paris Descartes (Paris, França).

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Referência musical:

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