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Author:   John Bodel (Brown University, USA) ,  Walter Scheidel (Stanford University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781119162483

ISBN 10:   1119162483
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   23 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables vii Notes on Contributors viii Preface xii Introduction 1 John Bodel and Walter Scheidel 1 Slavery and Personhood in the Neo-Assyrian Empire 15 Heather D. Baker 2 Orlando Patterson, Property, and Ancient Slavery: The Definitional Problem Revisited 31 David M. Lewis 3 Slaves or Serfs?: Patterson on the Thetes and Helots of Ancient Greece 55 Peter Hunt 4 Death and Social Death in Ancient Rome 81 John Bodel 5 Freedom, Slavery, and Female Sexual Honor in Antiquity 109 Kyle Harper 6 Becoming Almost Somebody: Manumission and its Complications in the Early Han Empire 122 Anthony Barbieri-Low 7 Ottoman Elite Enslavement and “Social Death” 136 Ehud R. Toledano 8 The Locked Box in Slavery and Social Death 151 Indrani Chatterjee 9 Honor and Dishonor in the Slavery of Colonial Brazil 167 Junia Ferreira Furtado 10 (Child) Slavery in Africa as Social Death?: Reponses Past and Present 193 Sandra E. Greene 11 Slavery and Freedom in Small-Scale Societies 210 Catherine M. Cameron 12 Rituals of Enslavement and Markers of Servitude: Orlando Patterson in the American Tropics 226 Fernando Santos-Granero 13 Slavery from Rome to Medieval Europe and Beyond: Words, Things, and Genomes 249 Michael McCormick 14 Revisiting Slavery, Property, and Social Death 265 Orlando Patterson Index 297

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John Bodel is W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and Professor of History at Brown University, USA. He studies ancient Roman history and Latin literature and has special interests in epigraphy, slavery in antiquity, Roman religion, funerals and burial customs, writing systems, and the ancient novel. His books include two other co‐edited volumes in Wiley’s Comparative History series: Household and Family Religion in Antiquity (with S. Olyan, 2008) and Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre‐Modern World (with S. E. Alcock and R. J. Talbert, 2012). Since 1995, he has directed the US Epigraphy Project, which gathers and shares information about ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions in the United States (http://usepigraphy.brown.edu). Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy‐Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University, USA. He has published widely on ancient social and economic history, premodern demography, and the comparative history of labor and state formation.

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