Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome: A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions - Couverture souple

Joshel, Sandra R.

 
9780806124445: Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome: A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions

Synopsis

In Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome, Sandra R. Joshel examines Roman commemorative inscriptions from the first and second centuries A.D. to determine ways in which slaves, freed slaves, and unprivileged freeborn citizens used work to frame their identities. The inscriptions indicate the significance of work-as a source of community, a way to reframe the conditions of legal status, an assertion of activity against upper-class passivity, and a standard of assessment based on economic achievement rather than birth. Drawing on sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and women's history, this thoroughly documented volume illuminates the dynamics of work and slavery at Rome. Sandra R. Joshel, who holds a doctoral degree in history from Rutgers University, teaches at the New England conservatory of Music.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sandra R. Joshel, who holds a doctoral degree in history from Rutgers University, teaches at the New England conservatory of Music.

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9780806124131: Work, Identity and the Legal Status at Rome: A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  080612413X ISBN 13 :  9780806124131
Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 1992
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