Captives challenges archaeologists to broaden their scope of inquiry to recognize the temporal depth, geographical breadth, and nearly universal presence of captives in small-scale societies of the past. Catherine Cameron's comparative approach to captives lays the groundwork, methodologically and theoretically, for understanding the lives of captives, their social locations, and their significance as agents of change in societies of all ... Read morescales throughout human prehistory and, indeed, into the present. -Brenda J. Bowser, associate professor of anthropology at California State University-Fullerton, coeditor of Cultural Transmission and Material Culture: Breaking Down Boundaries
Brenda J. Bowser This moving book helps us understand: What was it like to be a slave? A slave-owner? How does slavery affect society? It demonstrates that archaeology-the social science of the past-can ask big questions about the human experience. -Michelle Hegmon, professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University and editor of The Archaeology of the Human Experience
Michelle Hegmon In this ambitious and learned work, award-winning archaeologist Catherine Cameron explores how violence against the few may transform the cultures of the many. -James Brooks, author of Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
James Brooks Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World challenges archaeologists to consider captive-taking, an ancient and almost universal practice in human history, as a significant mode of cultural transmission and a source of culture change. . . . Here Cameron provides a framework that enables archaeologists to investigate the nature and scale of the roles that captives have played in small-scale societies. -David H. Dye, American Antiquity
David H. Dye
American Antiquity
This is a well-written text. . . . Equally accessible to advanced undergraduate students and researchers, with a wide range of studies and well-structured approach to captives as social beings that are organized in a coherent manner throughout. It should be the starting point for anyone seeking to understand the various facets of captive-taking and the lives of captives in small-scale societies. -Liza Gijanto, Historical Archaeology
Liza Gijanto
Historical Archaeology
[Captives] is useful for scholars in many fields interested in the topic, for classroom use, and the public. It is a significant contribution to the topic of captives and slaves, which remains urgent as we struggle with our own national legacy of slavery, as well human trafficking across the world and down the street. -Kenneth M. Ames, Oregon Historical Quarterly
Kenneth M. Ames
Oregon Historical Quarterly
Captives is foremost an invitation to begin to see the past in a new way-to make visible individuals who have long been made invisible in archaeological interpretations but have nonetheless been there all along. cLydia Wilson Marshall, KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History
Lydia Wilson Marshall
KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History
Cameron accomplishes exactly what she set out to do: opening up a new space for investigation and laying out an agenda for further research. . . . She makes it clear that Captives is intended not to be the final word but, rather, the opening salvo. Archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and ethnohistorians should heed her call. -Matthew Kruer, Ethnohistory
Matthew Kruer
Ethnohistory
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