Description
Product ID: | 9781496222206 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Borderlands and Transcultural Studies |
Title: | Captives |
Subtitle: | How Stolen People Changed the World |
Authors: | Author: Catherine M. Cameron |
Page Count: | 234 |
Subjects: | Slavery and abolition of slavery, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Catherine M. Cameron provides a detailed comparative study of captive-taking in small-scale societies and explores the profound impacts captives had on the societies they joined. Cameron’s book opens new avenues of research about captives as significant sources of culture change. In Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World archaeologist Catherine M. Cameron provides an eye-opening comparative study of the profound impact captives of warfare and raiding have had on small-scale societies through time. Cameron provides a new point of orientation for archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and other scholars by illuminating the impact that captive-taking and enslavement have had on cultural change, with important implications for understanding the past. |
Imprint Name: | University of Nebraska Press |
Publisher Name: | University of Nebraska Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-11-01 |