Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Slavery and Its Discourses

• Other Authors: Hörmann, Raphael (Editor), Mackenthun, Gesa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Waxmann Verlag 2010
• Series: Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship 2
• Subjects: Literary theory; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Transdisciplin; Slavery; Christian Slavery; Europes Colonizing Mission
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Slavery - the subjection of some human beings to a state of bondage by other, more powerful, people - has been an accepted social institution since ancient times. It is less well known that slavery has also produced cultural contact zones in forcing members of different cultures into sharing the sam...