On human bondage after slavery and social death /

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 t...

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Other Authors: Bodel, John, 1957-
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations, tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.