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Terms for Dependent People in Rural Russia in Early Modern Records
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction: The Semantics of Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependency in Comparison 1
- Indefinite Terms? Social Groups in Early Ancient China (ca. 1300–771 BC) and “Strong Asymmetrical Dependency” 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 73
- Dependent Rural Populations in Archaic and Classical Greece: Free, Slave, or Between Free and Slave? 99
- Familia and Dependency in Roman Law Texts 127
- Visualizations and Expressions of Dependencies in Classic Maya Narratives: A Semiotic Approach 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 179
- Modes of Manumission: What Terms Used for Emancipation Tell Us about Dependencies in Ottoman Society 205
- Terms for Dependent People in Rural Russia in Early Modern Records 225
- Contributors 253
- Index 255
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction: The Semantics of Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependency in Comparison 1
- Indefinite Terms? Social Groups in Early Ancient China (ca. 1300–771 BC) and “Strong Asymmetrical Dependency” 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 73
- Dependent Rural Populations in Archaic and Classical Greece: Free, Slave, or Between Free and Slave? 99
- Familia and Dependency in Roman Law Texts 127
- Visualizations and Expressions of Dependencies in Classic Maya Narratives: A Semiotic Approach 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 179
- Modes of Manumission: What Terms Used for Emancipation Tell Us about Dependencies in Ottoman Society 205
- Terms for Dependent People in Rural Russia in Early Modern Records 225
- Contributors 253
- Index 255