Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies: Semantics and Lexical Fields

book: Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies

Semantics and Lexical Fields

Edited by: Jeannine Bischoff and Stephan Conermann

Volume 1 in the series Dependency and Slavery Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110786989

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In this volume, we approach the phenomenon of slavery and other types of strong asymmetrical dependencies from two methodologically and theoretically distinct perspectives: semantics and lexical fields.

Detailed analyses of key terms that are associated with the conceptualization of strong asymmetrical dependencies promise to provide new insights into the self-concept and knowledge of pre-modern societies. The majority of these key terms have not been studied from a semantic or terminological perspective so far.

Our understanding of lexical fields is based on an onomasiological approach – which linguistic items are used to refer to a concept? Which words are used to express a concept? This means that the concept is a semantic unit which is not directly accessible but may be manifested in different ways on the linguistic level. We are interested in single concepts such as ‘wisdom’ or ‘fear’, but also in more complex semantic units like ‘strong asymmetrical dependencies’.

In our volume, we bring together and compare case studies from very different social orders and normative perspectives. Our examples range from Ancient China and Egypt over Greek and Maya societies to Early Modern Russia, the Ottoman Empire and Islamic and Roman law.

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Jeannine Bischoff, University of Bonn, Germany; Stephan Conermann, University of Bonn, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: The Semantics of Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependency in Comparison Stephan Conermann Open Access Download PDF	1
Indefinite Terms? Social Groups in Early Ancient China (ca. 1300–771 BC) and “Strong Asymmetrical Dependency” Susanne Adamski Open Access Download PDF	11
Tax Coercion as a Real and Metaphorical YOKE: On the Earliest State Administrative Practices Reflected in Ancient Egyptian Writing and Images Around 3000 BC Ludwig D. Morenz Open Access Download PDF	73
Dependent Rural Populations in Archaic and Classical Greece: Free, Slave, or Between Free and Slave? Winfried Schmitz Open Access Download PDF	99
Familia and Dependency in Roman Law Texts Martin Schermaier Open Access Download PDF	127
Visualizations and Expressions of Dependencies in Classic Maya Narratives: A Semiotic Approach Christian M. Prager Open Access Download PDF	151
How to Approach Emic Semantics of Dependency in Islamic Legal Texts: Reflections on the Ḥanafī Legal Commentary al-Hidāya fī sharḥ bidāya al-mubtadī and its British-Colonial Translation Anna Kollatz Open Access Download PDF	179
Modes of Manumission: What Terms Used for Emancipation Tell Us about Dependencies in Ottoman Society Veruschka Wagner Open Access Download PDF	205
Terms for Dependent People in Rural Russia in Early Modern Records Hans-Heinrich Nolte Open Access Download PDF	225
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	253
Index Open Access Download PDF	255

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars in the fields of history, archaeology, slavery studies, anthropology, literary studies
Pages
- Front matter: 5
- Main content: 257
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 19
- Coloured Illustrations: 22
- Tables: 1
- Coloured Tables: 1
Keywords: Slavery; serfdom; asymmetry

eBook

Published: October 3, 2022
ISBN: 9783110786989

Hardcover

Published: October 3, 2022
ISBN: 9783110786910