Captives : How Stolen People Changed the World /

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"Using a comparative approach, a detailed study of captive-taking in small-scale societies and exploration of the profound impacts that captives had on the societies they joined. Opens new avenues of research about captives as significant sources of culture change"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cameron, Catherine M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sozialer Wandel
Sklave
Kulturanthropologie
Gefangener
Social change.
Social archaeology.
Slavery > Social aspects.
Culture diffusion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
cultural diffusion.
Diffusion culturelle.
Guerre prehistorique > Aspect social.
Captivite > Aspect social.
Archeologie sociale.
Warfare, Prehistoric > Social aspects.
Captivity > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. The Captive in Space, Time, and Mind; 2. Captive Taking in Global Perspective; 3. The Captive as Social Person; 4. Captives and the Creation of Power; 5. Captives, Social Boundaries, and Ethnogenesis; 6. Captives and Cultural Transmission; 7. Captives in Prehistory; Notes; References; Index.

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