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Book SynopsisOn Human Bondage a critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson s groundbreaking Slavery and Social Death assesses how his theories have stood the test of time and applies them to new case studies.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Preface xii
Introduction 1
John Bodel and Walter Scheidel
1 Slavery and Personhood in the Neo-Assyrian Empire 15
Heather D. Baker
2 Orlando Patterson, Property, and Ancient Slavery: The Definitional Problem Revisited 31
David M. Lewis
3 Slaves or Serfs?: Patterson on the Thetes and Helots of Ancient Greece 55
Peter Hunt
4 Death and Social Death in Ancient Rome 81
John Bodel
5 Freedom, Slavery, and Female Sexual Honor in Antiquity 109
Kyle Harper
6 Becoming Almost Somebody: Manumission and its Complications in the Early Han Empire 122
Anthony Barbieri-Low
7 Ottoman Elite Enslavement and “Social Death” 136
Ehud R. Toledano
8 The Locked Box in Slavery and Social Death 151
Indrani Chatterjee
9 Honor and Dishonor in the Slavery of Colonial Brazil 167
Junia Ferreira Furtado
10 (Child) Slavery in Africa as Social Death?: Reponses Past and Present 193
Sandra E. Greene
11 Slavery and Freedom in Small-Scale Societies 210
Catherine M. Cameron
12 Rituals of Enslavement and Markers of Servitude: Orlando Patterson in the American Tropics 226
Fernando Santos-Granero
13 Slavery from Rome to Medieval Europe and Beyond: Words, Things, and Genomes 249
Michael McCormick
14 Revisiting Slavery, Property, and Social Death 265
Orlando Patterson
Index 297
