Racialized Commodities

Long-distance Trade, Mobility, and the Making of Race in Ancient Greece, c. 700-300 BCE

Christopher Stedman Parmenter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-775711-6 (ISBN)

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Between c. 700-300 BCE, the ancient Greeks developed a vivid imaginary of the world's peoples. Ranging from the light-skinned, "gray-eyed Thracians" of the distant north to the "dark-skinned Ethiopians" of the far south, as the poet Xenophanes described them around 540 BCE, Greeks envisioned a world populated by human groups with distinct physiognomies. Racialized Commodities traces how Greece's "racial imaginary"--a confluence of thinking about cultural geography, commodity production, and human physiognomy--emerged from cross-cultural trade between Greece and its Mediterranean neighbors during the Archaic and Classical Periods. It adopts the model of a "commodity biography" to investigate how trade led to the entanglement of cultures, bodies, and things in Archaic and Classical Greece. For merchants, the racial imaginary might be used to play up the "exotic" provenance of their goods to consumers. It might also circulate practical information about customs, pricing, navigation, and doing business in foreign ports.

Archaic Greek attempts to explain foreign bodies were rarely pejorative, and Racialized Commodities begins with some of their earliest images of African peoples, described by Greeks as Egyptians or Ethiopians, before seeking to explain what changed in the early Classical Period. As the Persian Empire loomed and Greek cities became increasingly dependent on enslaved labor, negative stereotypes of Thracians and Scythians became widespread and coalesced into the charged idea of the barbarous--the "barbarian."

Christopher Stedman Parmenter is Assistant Professor of Classics at The Ohio State University.

Introduction

Part I: The world of the Elephantine papyrus

Chapter 1: A short history of natron
Chapter 2: Egypt in your hand
Chapter 3: From ancestor to 'Other'

Part II: Letters from the Pontus

Chapter 4: Journeys into slavery
Chapter 5: Slavery and the balance of trade
Chapter 6: Inventing whiteness

Postscript
Appendices
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2024
Zusatzinfo	51, b/w
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 237 mm
Gewicht	703 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-775711-1 / 0197757111
ISBN-13	978-0-19-775711-6 / 9780197757116
Zustand	Neuware