On human bondage : after slavery and social death / edited by John Bodel and Walter Scheidel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bodel, John P., 1957- editor.

Scheidel, Walter, 1966- editor.

Brown University, host institution.

Series:

Ancient world--comparative histories

The ancient world: comparative histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patterson, Orlando, 1940- Slavery and social death--Congresses.

Patterson, Orlando.

Slavery--History--Congresses.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--Social conditions--Congresses.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--Social conditions.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 314 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

Summary:

A critical re-examination of Orlando Patterson's groundbreaking Slavery and Social Death, On Human Bondage assesses how his theories have stood the test of time, and applies them to new case studies. More than 35 years after the publication of Patterson's landmark work, these essays discuss his ideas of social death and natal alienation, as he first presented them and as they have come to be understood today. The essays bring together exciting new work by a group of esteemed historians of slavery, based on two conferences devoted to understanding the impact of Patterson's cross-cultural work. They provide 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. The essays delve 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. In addition, a final chapter by Patterson himself responds to the other contributions and advances his own thinking on concepts of property as they relate to slavery; the special connections between women and slavery; and the metaphors of social death and rebirth as dynamic conceptions of slavery and manumission. This collection not only celebrates but also critiques and extends Orlando Patterson's work, a landmark study of slavery that continues to inspire and provoke debate. Book jacket.

Contents:

Slavery and personhood in the Neo-Assyrian Empire / Heather D. Baker

Orlando Patterson, property, and ancient slavery: the definitional problem revisited / David M. Lewis

Slaves or serfs? Patterson on the thetes and helots of ancient Greece / Peter Hunt

Death and social death in ancient Rome / John Bodel

Freedom, slavery, and female sexual honor in antiquity / Kyle Harper

Becoming almost somebody: manumission and its complications in the early Han empire / Anthony Barbieri-Low

Ottoman elite enslavement and "social death" / Ehud R. Toledano

The locked box in slavery and social death / Indrani Chatterjee

Black women and slavery in colonial Brazil / Junia Ferreira Furtado

(Child) slavery in Africa as social death? Responses past and present / Sandra E. Greene

Slavery and freedom in small scale societies / Catherine M. Cameron

Rituals of enslavement and markers of servitude: Orlando Patterson in the American tropics / Fernando Santos-Granero

Slavery from Rome to Medieval Europe and beyond: words, things and genomes / Michael McCormick

Revisiting slavery, property and social death / Orlando Patterson.

Notes:

Papers from a conference, "Being Nobody?", held at Brown University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781119162483

1119162483

OCLC:

950750940

Publisher Number:

99970419544