Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome: A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions
Language: English
Published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK, 1992
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Softcover, 239 pages. 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. Owner's name on title page, otherwise clean, unread. Record # 374978.
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- Title
- Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome: A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions
- Author
- Sandra R. Joshel
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 080612444X
- ISBN 13
- 9780806124445
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.
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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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