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Racialized Commodities: Long-distance Trade, Mobility, and the Making of Race in Ancient Greece, c. 700-300 BCE by Christopher Stedman Parmenter (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, The Ohio State University) at Abbey's Bookshop,
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Christopher Stedman Parmenter (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, The Ohio State University)

Racialized Commodities

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

Christopher Stedman Parmenter (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, The Ohio State University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
09 December 2024
Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Slavery & abolition of slavery; Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
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.""
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Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 237mm,  Width: 164mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   703g
ISBN:   9780197757116
ISBN 10:   0197757111
Pages:   400
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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

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

Reviews for Racialized Commodities: Long-distance Trade, Mobility, and the Making of Race in Ancient Greece, c. 700-300 BCE

This is a landmark intervention in the study of race in antiquity as well as studies in ancient slavery and Greek culture more broadly. This exciting, innovative, and thought-provoking book breaks new ground by linking the emergence of an ancient Greek idea of 'race' to the dramatic upsurge in long distance trade during the seventh and sixth centuries BCE. This is a persuasive and altogether timely demonstration of how race operated in ancient Greece. * Joseph Skinner, Newcastle University * For those interested in the history of race linked to perceived skin color, this book will be both a revelation and a resource. Drawing especially on histories of trade, the author charts the way the Greeks came to see and associate black skin with prestige and power and, later, the way a certain image of 'whiteness' formed to sanction chattel slavery, particularly in democratic Athens. * Susan Lape, University of Southern California *


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