Slaves and Households in the Near East
edited by Laura Culbertson
Seventh in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series, this volume contains papers that emerged from the March 2010 seminar ‘Slaves and Households in the Near East’. Includes micro-historical examinations of slavery in contexts spanning almost four millennia.
The seventh in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series, this volume contains papers that emerged from the seminar “Slaves and Households in the Near East” held at the Oriental Institute March 5-6, 2010. Despite widespread mention of enslaved people in historical records from the ancient, medieval and early modern Near East, scholars struggle to understand what defines this phenomenon in both particular contexts and in general. The purpose of the seminar was to seek new understandings of slavery through scholarly exchange and exploration of new approaches. In particular, contributors examined slavery in the context of households, an approach that allows scholars to expose different dimensions of the phenomenon beyond basic economic questions. Households, whether domestic units, temples or the building blocks of political organisations, can be used as the prism through which to view the dynamics among enslaved people and their immediate contacts. The volume contains micro-historical examinations of slavery in contexts spanning almost four millennia.
Preface Introduction 1. Slaves and Households in the Near East (Laura Culbertson, University of Chicago) Section One: Early Mesopotamia 2. Slavery in Private Households toward the End of the Third Millennium B.C. (Hans Neumann, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster) 3. A Life-Course Approach to Household Slaves in the Late Third Millennium B.C. (Laura Culbertson, University of Chicago) 4. Domestic Female Slaves during the Old Babylonian Period (Andrea Seri, University of Chicago) Section Two: The Islamic Near East 5. Preliminary Remarks on Slaves and Slave Labor in the Third/Ninth Century Abbasid Empire (Matthew S. Gordon, Miami University) 6. An Empire of Many Households: The Case of Ottoman Enslavement (Ehud R. Toledano, Tel Aviv University) Section Three: Second and First Millennium Empires 7. Neither Slave nor Truly Free: The Status of the Dependents of Babylonian Temple Households (Kristin Kleber, Freie Universitat Berlin) 8. Slavery between Judah and Babylon: The Exilic Experience (F. Rachel Magdalene, Universitat Leipzig
and Cornelia Wunsch, University of London) 9. Household Structure and Population Dynamics in the Middle Babylonian Provincial "Slave" Population (Jonathan S. Tenney, Loyola University New Orleans and University of Copenhagen) Section Four: Response 10. Slaves and Households in the Near East: A Response (Indrani Chatterjee, Rutgers University)
- Edited by Laura Culbertson
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