ISBN:
9781108633208
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 508 pages)
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Illustrationen, Karten, Diagramme
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als What is a slave society?
DDC:
306.362
Keywords:
Slavery History
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Sklaverei
;
Soziologie
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables and Charts -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Slavery and Society in Global Perspective -- 1 Framing the Question: What Is a Slave Society? -- Genesis of the Idea of a "Slave Society" -- The Impact of the Model -- Ethnocentrism -- Fourth- to Second- Century BCE Carthage -- Sarmatians of the Second through Fourth Centuries CE -- Northwest Coast Indians of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries CE -- Sokoto Caliphate of the Nineteenth Century -- Dahomey of the Nineteenth Century -- Categorical Imprecision -- A New Model -- Part I Ancient and Late Antique Western Societies -- 2 Ancient Greece as a "Slave Society" -- Introduction: Weak and Strong Concepts of "Slave Societies" -- The Heterogeneity of Classical Greek Society -- Athens as a "Slave Society" -- Were the Helots Slaves? -- Conclusion -- 3 Roman Slavery and the Idea of "Slave Society" -- Slave Society: A Useful Category of Analysis? -- Before the Idea of "Slave Society" -- Looking for Roman Slavery -- Conclusion -- 4 Ancient Slaveries and Modern Ideology -- An Archaeology of Finley's Theory 1: The Background -- An Archaeology of Finley's Theory 2: Developing the Model -- The Model and Its Context -- Finley and the Greeks -- Rome and the US South: Does Finley's Model Help? -- Conclusion -- Part II Non-Western Small-Scale Societies -- 5 The Nature of Slavery in Small-Scale Societies -- Who Was a Slave? -- Numbers -- Warfare, Captive-Taking, and the Creation of Status -- The Slave Economy in Small-Scale Societies -- Conclusions -- 6 Native American Slavery in Global Context -- Indigenous Slaving Practices -- Emancipation -- Comparative and Global Perspectives -- Conclusion
Abstract:
7 Slavery as Structure, Process, or Lived Experience, or Why Slave Societies Existed in Precontact Tropical America -- Slavery as Structure: The Economic Perspective -- Slavery as Process: The Historical Perspective -- Slavery as Lived Experience: The Phenomenological Perspective -- Discussion -- 8 Slavery in Societies on the Frontiers of Centralized States in West Africa -- Slavery as a Mode of Production -- The Bight of Biafra Hinterland -- Slavery on the Frontiers of the Jihad States -- Conclusion -- Part III Modern Western Societies -- 9 The Colonial Brazilian "Slave Society" -- Slaveholding Patterns and "Slave Society" -- Challenges to Finley's Perspective: São Paulo, the Amazon, and Indigenous Labor -- An Alternative Model for the Social Formation of Colonial Brazil -- Agency and African Diaspora -- Conclusions -- 10 What Is a Slave Society? -- 11 Islands of Slavery -- Introduction -- Archaeology of Caribbean Slavery -- Origins of Caribbean Slavery, 1500-1650 -- The Sugar Revolution and the Intensification of African Slavery, 1650-1800 -- Second Slavery in the Caribbean, 1801-1886 -- Conclusion: Finley's or Goveia's "Slave Society" -- Part IV Non-Western State Societies -- 12 Was Nineteenth-Century Eastern Arabia a "Slave Society"? -- Background -- Economic Conditions -- Social Conditions -- Conclusions -- 13 Slavery and Society in East Africa, Oman, and the Persian Gulf -- Introduction: The Emergence of a Transoceanic, Transcontinental "Slave Society" -- Transformations in Slavery in Africa and the Indian Ocean Littoral -- The Historiography of East African and Indian Ocean Slavery and Its Evolution -- Slavery and Society in East Africa, Oman, and the Persian Gulf -- 14 Ottoman and Islamic Societies -- Introduction -- Antislavery Islamic Societies of the Middle East: History and Discourse -- Conclusion
Abstract:
15 A Microhistorical Analysis of Korean Nobis through the Prism of the Lawsuit of Damulsari -- Introduction -- The Social and Legal Disadvantage of the Nobi -- The Matrilineal Succession Law of the Lowborn Class -- The Lawsuit of Damulsari -- The Case of Yi Ji-do -- The Case of Damulsari -- Nobis in a Broader Perspective -- Half-Slave/Half-Serf -- Tribute-Paying Nobis -- Conclusion -- 16 "Slavery so Gentle": A Fluid Spectrum of Southeast Asian Conditions of Bondage -- Pattern of Debt and Obligation -- Incorporation of Labor into Expanding Cities -- Slave Trade -- Legalism and the Rise of the "Outsider" Slave -- Were There "Slave Societies" in This Spectrum? -- Conclusion: Intersections: Slaveries, Borderlands, Edges -- Volume Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Conference held during September 27-28, 2013, at the University of Colorado, Boulder
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