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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155255903321

Titolo

On human bondage : after slavery and social death / / edited by John Bodel and Walter Scheidel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-119-16252-1

1-119-16254-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

306.3/6209

Soggetti

Slavery - History

Slaves - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from a conference, "Being Nobody?", held at Brown University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Slavery and personhood in the Neo-Assyrian Empire / Heather D. Baker -- Orlando Patterson, property, and ancient slavery: the definitional problem revisited / David M. Lewis -- Slaves or serfs? Patterson on the thetes and helots of ancient Greece / Peter Hunt -- Death and social death in ancient Rome / John Bodel -- Freedom, slavery, and female sexual honor in antiquity / Kyle Harper -- Becoming almost somebody: manumission and its complications in the early Han empire / Anthony Barbieri-Low -- Ottoman elite enslavement and "social death" / Ehud R. Toledano -- The locked box in slavery and social death / Indrani Chatterjee -- Black women and slavery in colonial Brazil / Junia Ferreira Furtado -- (Child) slavery in Africa as social death? Responses past and present / Sandra E. Greene -- Slavery and freedom in small scale societies / Catherine M. Cameron -- Rituals of enslavement and markers of servitude: Orlando Patterson in the American tropics / Fernando Santos-Granero -- Slavery from Rome to Medieval Europe and beyond: words, things and genomes / Michael McCormick -- Revisiting slavery, property and social death / Orlando Patterson.

Sommario/riassunto

On Human Bondage - a critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson’s groundbreaking Slavery and Social Death - assesses how his theories have stood the test of time and applies them to new case studies.



Discusses the novel ideas of social death and natal alienation, as Patterson first presented them 35 years ago and as they are understood today. Brings together exciting new work by a group of esteemed historians of slavery, as well as a final chapter by Patterson himself that responds to and expands upon the other contributions. Provides insights into slave societies around the world and across time, from classical Greece and Rome to modern Brazil and the Caribbean, and from Han China and pre-colonial South Asia to early modern Europe and the New World. Delves into a wide range of topics, including the reformation of social identity after slavery, the new historicist approach to slavery, rituals of enslavement and servitude, questions of honor and dishonor, and symbolic imagery of slavery