Book contents
- What Is a Slave Society?
- What Is a Slave Society?
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables and Charts
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Slavery and Society in Global Perspective
- 1 Framing the Question: What Is a Slave Society?
- Part I Ancient and Late Antique Western Societies
- Part II Non-Western Small-Scale Societies
- 5 The Nature of Slavery in Small-Scale Societies
- 6 Native American Slavery in Global Context
- 7 Slavery as Structure, Process, or Lived Experience, or Why Slave Societies Existed in Precontact Tropical America
- 8 Slavery in Societies on the Frontiers of Centralized States in West Africa
- Part III Modern Western Societies
- Part IV Non-Western State Societies
- Conclusion: Intersections: Slaveries, Borderlands, Edges
- Volume Bibliography
- Index
5 - The Nature of Slavery in Small-Scale Societies
from Part II - Non-Western Small-Scale Societies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 April 2018
- What Is a Slave Society?
- What Is a Slave Society?
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables and Charts
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Slavery and Society in Global Perspective
- 1 Framing the Question: What Is a Slave Society?
- Part I Ancient and Late Antique Western Societies
- Part II Non-Western Small-Scale Societies
- 5 The Nature of Slavery in Small-Scale Societies
- 6 Native American Slavery in Global Context
- 7 Slavery as Structure, Process, or Lived Experience, or Why Slave Societies Existed in Precontact Tropical America
- 8 Slavery in Societies on the Frontiers of Centralized States in West Africa
- Part III Modern Western Societies
- Part IV Non-Western State Societies
- Conclusion: Intersections: Slaveries, Borderlands, Edges
- Volume Bibliography
- Index
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- What Is a Slave Society?The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective, pp. 151 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018