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Trade and taboo : disreputable professions in the Roman Mediterranean / Sarah E. Bond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bond, Sarah E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Professions--Rome--History.
- Professions.
- Occupations--Rome--History.
- Occupations.
- Social status--Rome--History.
- Social status.
- Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
- Rome.
- Rome--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Trade and Taboo addresses the legal, literary, social, and institutional creation of disrepute in ancient Roman society.Tracking the shifting application of stigmas of disrepute between the Republic and Late Antiquity, it follows particular groups of professionals--funeral workers, criers, tanners, mint workers, and even bakers--asking how they.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Roman pride and prejudices
- Quamvis indignus: criers, status, and soundscapes
- Touch, pollution, and the mortuary trades in the Roman Mediterranean
- Scent and sensibilities: tanners in the ancient Mediterranean
- Currency and control: legal disrepute and associations of mint workers
- Catering to pleasure: sensual trades in the later Roman Empire
- Conclusion: inheriting the prejudices of Rome.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-310) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472122257
- 0472122258
- OCLC:
- 961271869
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.8224993
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