Slaves and households in the Near East / edited by Laura Culbertson ; with contributions by Indrani Chatterjee ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Culbertson, Laura.

Chatterjee, Indrani

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars ; no. 7.

University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Middle East--Congresses.

Slavery.

Middle East.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 151 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Oriental Intstitute of the University of Chicago, 2011.

Summary:

The seminar that generated the 10 papers was held in Chicago in March 2010. They cover early Mesopotamia, the Islamic near east, and second and first millennium empires. The topics include slavery in private households toward the end of the third millennium BC, domestic female slaves during the Old Babylonian period, slaves and slave labor in the third/ninth century 'Abbasid Empire, and the status of the dependents of Babylonian temple households. There is no index. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Slaves and Households in the Near East / Laura Culbertson

Slavery in Private Households toward the End of the Third Millennium B.C. / Hans Neumann

A Life-Course Approach to Household Slaves in the Late Third Millennium B.C / Laura Culbertson

Domestic Female Slaves during the Old Babylonian Period / Andrea Seri

Preliminary Remarks on Slaves and Slave Labor in the Third/Ninth Century Abbasid Empire / Matthew S. Gordon

An Empire of Many Households: The Case of Ottoman Enslavement / Ehud R. Toledano

Neither Slave nor Truly Free: The Status of the Dependents of Babylonian Temple Households / Kristin Kleber

Slavery between Judah and Babylon: The Exilic Experience / F. Rachel Magdalene

Household Structure and Population Dynamics in the Middle Babylonian Provincial "Slave" Population / Jonathan S. Tenney

Slaves and Households in the Near East: A Response / Indrani Chatterjee.

Notes:

"Papers from the Oriental Institute Seminar: Slaves and households in the Near East, held at the Oriental Intstitute of the University of Chicago, 5-6 March 2010."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

188592383X

9781885923837

OCLC:

709681944

Publisher Number:

99943809901