Terms for Dependent People in Rural Russia in Early Modern Records

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: The Semantics of Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependency in Comparison 1
4. Indefinite Terms? Social Groups in Early Ancient China (ca. 1300–771 BC) and “Strong Asymmetrical Dependency” 11
5. Tax Coercion as a Real and Metaphorical YOKE: On the Earliest State Administrative Practices Reflected in Ancient Egyptian Writing and Images Around 3000 BC 73
6. Dependent Rural Populations in Archaic and Classical Greece: Free, Slave, or Between Free and Slave? 99
7. Familia and Dependency in Roman Law Texts 127
8. Visualizations and Expressions of Dependencies in Classic Maya Narratives: A Semiotic Approach 151
9. 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 179
10. Modes of Manumission: What Terms Used for Emancipation Tell Us about Dependencies in Ottoman Society 205
11. Terms for Dependent People in Rural Russia in Early Modern Records 225
12. Contributors 253
13. Index 255