In Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World archaeologist
Catherine M. Cameron provides an eye-opening comparative study of
the profound impact captives of warfare and raiding have had on
small-scale societies through time. Cameron provides a new point of
orientation for archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and
other scholars by illuminating the impact that captive-taking and
enslavement have had on cultural change, with important
implications for understanding the past. Focusing primarily on
indigenous societies in the Americas while extending the
comparative reach to include Europe, Africa, and Island Southeast
Asia, Cameron draws on ethnographic, ethnohistoric, historic, and
archaeological data to examine the roles that captives played in
small-scale societies. In such societies, captives represented an
almost universal social category consisting predominantly of women
and children and constituting 10 to 50 percent of the population in
a given society. Cameron demonstrates how captives brought with
them new technologies, design styles, foodways, religious
practices, and more, all of which changed the captor culture. This
book provides a framework that will enable archaeologists to
understand the scale and nature of cultural transmission by
captives, and it will also interest anthropologists, historians,
and other scholars who study captive-taking and slavery.
Cameron’s exploration of the peculiar amnesia that surrounds
memories of captive-taking and enslavement around the world also
establishes a connection with unmistakable contemporary relevance.
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