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On Human Bondage: After Slavery and Social Death

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On Human Bondagea critical reexamination of Orlando Pattersons groundbreaking Slavery and Social Deathassesses 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
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Product Details
  • Weight: 635g
  • Dimensions: 168 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Dec 2016
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781119162483

About

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 coedited volumes in Wileys Comparative History series: Household and Family Religion in Antiquity (with S. Olyan 2008) and Highways Byways and Road Systems in the PreModern 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 KennedyGrossman 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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