SOMETIMES TO BE LESS-THAN BRILLIANT IS BRILLIANT - AN ACCUMULATION OFLABOR APPROACH TO THE DOMESTIC MODE OF PRODUCTION

The argument of this article is in two parts. The first part documents how the Barma of Chad had an objective structure, a domestic mode of production, which exhibited a practical logic of labour accumulation. The second part enters the realm of Barma subjectivity, showing how th eir domestic mode of production became embodied in a practical sense t hat disposed them to labour accumulation. The practical logic produced by the practical sense reduced uncertainty, which meant that sometime s to be less than brilliant, was brilliant.