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

Joshel, Sandra R.

 
9780806124445: Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome: A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions
Brossura
ISBN 10: 080612444X ISBN 13: 9780806124445
Casa editrice: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1993

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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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What was daily life like for a working man or woman in the Roman Empire? What was the meaning of labour for the labourer? Roman authors (who seldom were workers) depicted workers in ancient Rome but generally used stereotypes intended to amuse the upper class. "Common" men and women did write of their own lives, often poignantly and eloquently, in their epitaphs and votive dedications. At death they claimed the identity they had worked a lifetime to create. For many, the identity centered on occupation. In "Work, Identity and Legal Status at Rome", Sandra R. Joshel examines Roman commemorative inscriptions from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD to determine ways in which slaves, freed slaves and unprivileged freeborn citizens used work to frame their identities. In the minutiae of the epitaphs and dedications she identifies the "language" of the inscriptions, through which the voiceless classes of Ancient Rome spoke. Drawing on sociology, anthropology, enthnography and women's history, this thoroughly documented volume illuminates the dynamics of work and slavery at Rome.

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Editore
Univ of Oklahoma Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1993
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
080612444X
ISBN 13 
9780806124445
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
256
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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Hamburg
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Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780806124131: Work, Identity and the Legal Status at Rome: A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions: v. 11

Edizione in evidenza

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