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Fashion imagery has existed for hundreds of years and yet the methods used by scholars to understand it have remained mostly historical and descriptive. The belief informing these approaches may be that fashion imagery is designed for one purpose: to depict a garment and how to …
Introduction: spectrum of statuses -- Chattel slaves -- Privileged chattel slaves -- Freedmen with conditional freedom -- Metics (metoikoi) -- Privileged metics -- Bastards (nothoi) -- Disenfranchised citizens (atimoi) -- Naturalized citizens -- Full citizens: female -- Full cit…
"Ancient Greek literature, Athenian civic ideology, and modern classical scholarship have all worked together to reinforce the idea that there were three neatly defined status groups in classical Athens--citizens, slaves, and resident foreigners. But this book--the first compreh…
"Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa's current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the book advocates a multidimensional view of African societies, in which social positions consist o…
Die Sozialstruktur der Hallstattkultur wurde viel diskutiert, wobei vor allem die Frage nach Big-Man-Systemen, Häuptlingstümern oder Erbaristokratien im Mittelpunkt stand, während Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Identifikation von Statussymbolen und Prestigegütern vernachlässigt w…
