“…Undertaking further primary research in order to find out whether this was indeed the case and what reasons might account for this seemed a useful and pertinent exercise in itself; but it also provided an opportunity for testing theoretical propositions on the transition(s) to capitalism that might apply to other contexts. analysis before, during and after the independence struggle (Cabral 1980(Cabral , 2008 and a few key references published in the late 1980s and early 1990s (including Galli and Jones 1987, Lopes 1987and Forrest 1992, there has been little subsequent research with an explicitly political-economic character. There has been plenty of excellent published research in and on Guinea-Bissau, including, in particular, that which reflects the work undertaken within the ambit of Bissau's Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa (INEP), as well as a number of excellent ethnographies, like those undertaken by Gable (1995Gable ( , 1997Gable ( , 2000Gable ( , 2003Gable ( , 2006 on the Manjaco, and by Temudo on the Southern peninsula of Cubucare (2009, 2009b, inter alia).…”