Invisible citizens : captives and their consequences / edited by Catherine M. Cameron.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cameron, Catherine M.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Foundations of archaeological inquiry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology).

Social archaeology.

Enslaved persons.

Slave trade.

Physical Description:

ix, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2008]

Summary:

Throughout history warfare and raiding forced captives from one society into another, forming an almost invisible stratum of many people without kin and largely outside the social systems in which they lived. Invisible Citizens explores the profound affects this mingling of societies and customs had in cultural development around the world.

The contributors to this volume explore the remarkable range in the conditions and experiences of captives, from abject drudge to quasi kinswoman and from war captive to sexual concubine. They establish and develop methods for identifying captives in the archaeological record in light of the silence that surrounded captive-taking and enslavement in many parts of the world.

Invisible Citizens will attract attention from a number of scholarly fields concerned with the comparative, historical study of social inequality. This volume challenges scholars to develop robust, empirically grounded insights into the practices of slavery.

Contents:

Introduction: captives in prehistory as agents of social change / Catherine M. Cameron

The slave trade as practice and memory: what are the issues for archaeologists? / Ann Brower Stahl

African slavery: archaeology and decentralized societies / Peter Robertshaw and William L. Duncan

Captivity, slavery, and cultural exchange between Rome and the Germans from the first to the seventh century CE / Noel Lenski

The impact of captured women on cultural transmission in contact-period Philippine slave-raiding chiefdoms / Laura Lee Junker

Slavery, household production, and demography on the Southern Northwest Coast: cables, tacking, and ropewalks / Kenneth M. Ames

Ripped flesh and torn souls: skeletal evidence for captivity and slavery from the La Plata Valley, New Mexico, AD 1100-1300 / Debra L. Martin

Captive wives? The role and status of nonlocal women on the protohistoric Southern High Plains / Judith A. Habicht-Mauche

Unwilling immigrants: culture, change, and the "other" in Mississippian societies / Susan M. Alt

Social death and resurrection in the Western Great Lakes / Peter N. Peregrine

Wrenched bodies / Warren R. DeBoer

Captives in Amazonia: becoming kin in a predatory landscape / Brenda J. Bowser

Epilogue: Captive, concubine, servant, kin : a historian divines experience in archaeological slaveries / James F. Brooks

List of contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780874809367

0874809363

OCLC:

234380394