Bibliograph

Slavery and social death, a comparative study, Orlando Patterson

Type

Label

Slavery and social death, a comparative study, Orlando Patterson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Slavery and social death

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

8219393

Responsibility statement

Orlando Patterson

Sub title

a comparative study

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Note: Contents data are based on pre-publication information provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete. -- -- The internal relations of slavery -- Slavery as an institutional process -- The dialectics of slavery

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