Slavery and social death : a comparative study : with a new preface
Orlando Patterson
Bok · Engelsk · 2018
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| Omfang | XXXIII, 511 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Utgave | First Harvard University Press paperback edition
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| Opplysninger | Opprinnelig utgitt i 1982. - The internal relations of slavery. The idiom of power -- Authority, alienation, and social death -- Honor and degradation -- Slavery as an institutional process. Enslavement of "free" persons -- Enslavement by birth -- The acquisition of slaves -- The condition of slavery -- Manumission : its meaning and modes -- The status of freed persons -- Patterns of manumission -- The dialectics of slavery. The ultimate slave -- Slavery as human parasitism. - In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. Slavery is shown to be a parasitic relationship between master and slave, invariably entailing the violent domination of a natally alienated, or socially dead, person. The phenomenon of slavery as an institution, the author argues, is a single process of recruitment, incorporation on the margin of society, and eventual manumission or death. --from publisher description
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| ISBN | 0674986903. - 9780674810822. - 9780674986909
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