TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tenney,Jonathan S.
TI  - Life at the bottom of Babylonian societ y: servile laborers at Nippur in the 14th and 13th centuries, B.C. 
T2  - Brill eBook titles 2011
SN  - 9789004207042
AV  - HD4844 .T46 2011
U1  - 305.5/620935 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Families
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Nippur (Extinct city)
KW  - History
KW  - Labor
KW  - Social status
KW  - Working class
KW  - Babylonia
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Sources
KW  - Population
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Preliminary Material; J. S. Tenney --; Chapter One. Servile Laborers In A Favored Province; J. S. Tenney --; Chapter Two. Sources; J. S. Tenney --; Chapter Three. Population: Sex, Age, Death, And Health; J. S. Tenney --; Chapter Four. Family And Household; J. S. Tenney --; Chapter Five. Work, Flight, Origins, And Status; J. S. Tenney --; Chapter Six. The Servile Work Force In Local And National Perspective; J. S. Tenney --; Appendix One. Selected Households From Middle Babylonian Sources; J. S. Tenney --; Appendix Two. Size And Composition Of Select Mobile Work Groups; J. S. Tenney --; Appendix Three. Sex And Age Classification Of Attested Occupations In Middle Babylonian Rosters; J. S. Tenney --; Select Bibliography; J. S. Tenney --; List And Index Of Cuneiform Sources; J. S. Tenney --; General Index; J. S. Tenney --; Index Of Select Akkadian Words And Logograms; J. S. Tenney; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Life at the Bottom of Babylonian Society is a study of the population dynamics, family structure, and legal status of publicly-controlled servile workers in Kassite Babylonia. It compares some of the demographic aspects proper to this group with other intensively studied past populations, such as Roman Egypt, Medieval Tuscany, and American slave plantations. It suggests that families, especially those headed by single mothers, acted as a counter measure against population reduction (flight and death) and as a means for the state to control this labor force. The work marks a step forward in the use of quantitative measures in conjunction with cuneiform sources to achieve a better understanding of the social and economic forces that affected ancient Near Eastern populations
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004206892.i-268
ER  -