{"product_id":"on-human-bondage-isbn-9781119162483","title":"On Human Bondage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Human Bondage\u003c\/i\u003e—a critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson’s groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eSlavery and Social Death\u003c\/i\u003e—assesses how his theories have stood the test of time and applies them to new case studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses the novel ideas of social death and natal alienation, as Patterson first presented them 35 years ago and as they are understood today\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together exciting new work by a group of esteemed historians of slavery, as well as a final chapter by Patterson himself that responds to and expands upon the other contributions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDelves 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures and Tables vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Bodel and Walter Scheidel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Slavery and Personhood in the Neo-Assyrian Empire 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeather D. Baker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Orlando Patterson, Property, and Ancient Slavery: The Definitional Problem Revisited 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid M. Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Slaves or Serfs?: Patterson on the Thetes and Helots of Ancient Greece 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Hunt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Death and Social Death in Ancient Rome 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Bodel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Freedom, Slavery, and Female Sexual Honor in Antiquity 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKyle Harper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Becoming Almost Somebody: Manumission and its Complications in the Early Han Empire 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnthony Barbieri-Low\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Ottoman Elite Enslavement and “Social Death” 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEhud R. Toledano\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Locked Box in Slavery and Social Death 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndrani Chatterjee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Honor and Dishonor in the Slavery of Colonial Brazil 167\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJunia Ferreira Furtado\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 (Child) Slavery in Africa as Social Death?: Reponses Past and Present 193\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSandra E. Greene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Slavery and Freedom in Small-Scale Societies 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatherine M. Cameron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Rituals of Enslavement and Markers of Servitude: Orlando Patterson in the American Tropics 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFernando Santos-Granero\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Slavery from Rome to Medieval Europe and Beyond: Words, Things, and Genomes 249\u003cbr\u003eMichael McCormick\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Revisiting Slavery, Property, and Social Death 265\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrlando Patterson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 297\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Bodel\u003c\/b\u003e is W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and Professor of History at Brown University, USA. He studies ancient Roman history and Latin literature and has special interests in epigraphy, slavery in antiquity, Roman religion, funerals and burial customs, writing systems, and the ancient novel. His books include two other co‐edited volumes in Wiley’s \u003ci\u003eComparative History\u003c\/i\u003e series: \u003ci\u003eHousehold and Family Religion in Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e (with S. Olyan, 2008) and \u003ci\u003eHighways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre‐Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e (with S. E. Alcock and R. J. Talbert, 2012). Since 1995, he has directed the US Epigraphy Project, which gathers and shares information about ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions in the United States (http:\/\/usepigraphy.brown.edu).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Scheidel\u003c\/b\u003e is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy‐Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University, USA. He has published widely on ancient social and economic history, premodern demography, and the comparative history of labor and state formation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson’s groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eSlavery and Social Death\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Human Bondage\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989712781541,"sku":"NP9781119162483","price":111.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119162483.jpg?v=1761785211","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/on-human-bondage-isbn-9781119162483","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}