Résumé
Several socio-economic approaches associate peasant agricultures to production and redistribution systems based on other conceptions of value than this of market exchange. This paper examines three proposals from diverse backgrounds but sharing a common analysis of peasant farming around the notions of ethics, affection, autonomy and resistance. There are the moral economy of Scott (1976), the economy of affection of Hyden (1980) and the peasant principle of Ploeg (2008). These three authors also refer to the principle of reciprocity; thus, I propose first to examine these three approaches and how they could dialogue. Secondly I’ll analyze their contribution regarding the theory of reciprocity in anthropology (SCUBLA, 1985; TEMPLE, 1997, 2003).