Papers from a conference, "Being Nobody?", held at Brown University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Slavery and personhood in the Neo-Assyrian Empire / Heather D. Baker -- Orlando Patterson, property, and ancient slavery: the definitional problem revisited / David M. Lewis -- Slaves or serfs? Patterson on the thetes and helots of ancient Greece / Peter Hunt -- Death and social death in ancient Rome / John Bodel -- Freedom, slavery, and female sexual honor in antiquity / Kyle Harper -- Becoming almost somebody: manumission and its complications in the early Han empire / Anthony Barbieri-Low -- Ottoman elite enslavement and "social death" / Ehud R. Toledano -- The locked box in slavery and social death / Indrani Chatterjee -- Black women and slavery in colonial Brazil / Junia Ferreira Furtado -- (Child) slavery in Africa as social death? Responses past and present / Sandra E. Greene -- Slavery and freedom in small scale societies / Catherine M. Cameron -- Rituals of enslavement and markers of servitude: Orlando Patterson in the American tropics / Fernando Santos-Granero -- Slavery from Rome to Medieval Europe and beyond: words, things and genomes / Michael McCormick -- Revisiting slavery, property and social death / Orlando Patterson