Invisible Citizens: Captives and Their Consequences (Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry) - Softcover

9780874809367: Invisible Citizens: Captives and Their Consequences (Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874809363 ISBN 13: 9780874809367

Publisher: University of Utah Press, 2009

Throughout history, warfare and raiding forced captives from one society into another, forming an almost invisible stratum of many people without kin and largely outside the social systems in which they lived. Invisible Citizens explores the profound effects this mingling of societies and customs had on cultural development around the world.
The contributors to this volume explore the remarkable range in the conditions and experiences of captives, from abject drudge to quasi kinswoman and from war captive to sexual concubine. Developing methods for identifying captives in the archaeological record are established in light of the silence that surrounded captive-taking and enslavement in many parts of the world.
Invisible Citizens promises to attract attention from a number of fields concerned with the comparative, historical study of social inequality. It challenges scholars to develop robust, empirically grounded insights into the practices of slavery while attending to the forms and saliencies of its memories. .

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From the Publisher:

Contributors Include:
Susan M. Alt, Indiana University
Kenneth M. Ames, Portland State University
Brenda Bowser, California State University, Fullerton
James F. Brooks, School of Advanced Research
Warren DeBoer, CUNY, Queens College
William L. Duncan, University of California, Santa Cruz
Judith A. Habicht-Mauche, University of California, Santa Cruz
Laura Lee Junker, University of Illinois at Chicago
Noel Lenski, University of Colorado, Boulder
Debra L. Martin, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Peter N. Peregrine, Lawrence University
Peter Robertshaw, California State University, San Bernadino
Ann B. Stahl, Binghamton University

About the Author:

Catherine M. Cameron is an associate professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder and is coeditor of The Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. Her publications include The Abandonment of Settlements and Regions: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches; Hopi Dwellings: Architectural Change at Orayvi and Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan: Excavations at the Bluff Great House.

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