ISBN:
9783030732912
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 191 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen, Tabellen, Karten
Series Statement:
Themes in contemporary archaeology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Archaeology of Slavery in Early Medieval Northern Europe
DDC:
306.362
Keywords:
Slavery-Europe, Northern-History
;
Slave trade-Europe, Northern-History
;
Europe, Northern-Antiquities
;
Electronic books
;
Konfliktarchäologie
;
Handelsgeschichte
;
Konferenzschrift 2014
;
Konferenzschrift 10-14 September 2014
;
Electronic books
;
Nordeuropa
;
Sklaverei
;
Sklavenhandel
;
Sachkultur
;
Funde
;
Geschichte 550-1050
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- 1: Introduction: An 'Invisible Commodity'? -- References -- Part I: Comparative Perspectives -- 2: The Arrogation of Slavery: Prehistory, Archaeology, and Pre-theoretical Commitments Concerning People as Property -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Being and Becoming Enslaved -- 2.3 Defining Slaves: Thucydides in Liverpool -- 2.4 The Problem of Archaeological Visibility and Representativity -- 2.5 The Dynamic of Denial: Achebe and the Ethnographers -- 2.6 Democracy and Egality -- 2.7 Problematizing Archaeological Data Proxies for Slavery -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- 3: Recent Approaches to the Archaeological Investigation of Slavery in Africa -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Studying the Archaeology of Slavery in Africa -- 3.3 North Africa, the Sudanic Belt and the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade -- 3.4 Archaeology of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade -- 3.5 Archaeologies of Enslavement and Freedom in Eastern and Southern Africa -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- Part II: The British Isles -- 4: To Tread the Paths, and Traverse the Moors: Investigating Slavery in Early Medieval Western Britain -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Evidence for Slavery in the Written Record -- 4.3 Investigating the Burial Record -- 4.4 Stable Isotope Evidence for Localised Mobility and Insular Slavery -- 4.5 'Non-beings' and the Use of Distinctive Burial Rites -- 4.6 Conclusions -- References -- 5: The Archaeology of Slave Trading in Viking-Age Britain and Ireland: A Methodological Approach -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Shackles -- 5.3 Fortified Settlements -- 5.4 Silver Exchange -- 5.5 Burials -- 5.6 Conclusions -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Part III: Scandinavia -- 6: The Norm and the Subaltern: Identifying Slaves in an Early Medieval Scandinavian Society.
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