Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World
- ISBN-10
- 0803293992
- ISBN-13
- 9780803293991
- Series
- Captives
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 213
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-11-01
- Publisher
- U of Nebraska Press
- Author
- Catherine M. Cameron
Description
"Using a comparative approach, a detailed study of captive-taking in small-scale societies and exploration of the profound impacts that captives had on the societies they joined. Opens new avenues of research about captives as significant sources of culture change"--
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