No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870
No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870
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除了法律没有纽带：牙买加国家形成中的惩罚、种族和性别，1780 年至 1870 年
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2005
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Bruce M. Taylor
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Roman family. The papers were subsequently published as The Family in Ancient Rome (1986); Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome (1991); and The Roman Family: Status, Sentiment, Space (1997). These volumes advanced our collective understanding of the Roman family in large part because Rawson drew many of the leading scholars in Roman social history to her colloquia. The contributors to the present effort, which stems from the Fourth E. T. Salmon Conference at McMaster University in 2001, are equally distinguished, and the outcome equally impressive. The first three conferences focused on Rome and Roman Italy. Here, seven of the ten papers examine household structure and family values in the provinces. The issue of “Romanization” is central, but several of the presentations also test the controversial notion, promoted by Richard Saller and Brent Shaw, that the Roman family was, at bottom, a nuclear rather than an extended unit. Other authors in this collection also add to the breadth of knowledge on the family. Contrary to Saller and Shaw, Richard Alston concludes that “there is no reason to postulate even a relatively homogeneous experience of the Egyptian family” (155-56). Roman influence in the Jewish community appears to have been minimal (Margaret Williams). The Roman presence did not disrupt traditional marriage patterns in North Africa, where the levirate persisted into late antiquity (Mirielle Corbier). The sanctity of marriage was more important than the unfettered exercise of paternal authority in the Greek east (Judith Evans-Grubbs). Women and children were more highly esteemed in Lusitania (Jonathan Edmondson) and Pannonia (Mary Boatwright), respectively, than was typically the case in Roman Italy. George’s decision to lead with two papers that concentrate on Italy and reaffirm earlier findings casts these provincial studies into bold relief. In Cicero’s social universe, close kin were expected to love and be loyal to one another (Susan Treggiari). On their funerary reliefs, affluent freedmen stressed their endorsement of hallowed Roman values, notably paternal authority and the chastity of women (Michelle George). This volume was written for the professional historian; hopefully, those with the necessary expertise will expand its main lines of inquiry to other provinces. The studies of Alston and Corbier further make it clear that endogamy blurs the distinction between nuclear and extended family. In future, ancient historians will need to reconsider whether this dyad possesses even heuristic value. A work that lays out not one but two fruitful avenues of further study is welcome indeed.
