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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Sons de banzo

Marcassa, Mariana Pedrosa 29 April 2016 (has links)
Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-09-16T13:29:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariana Pedrosa Marcassa.pdf: 990874 bytes, checksum: 45236e8fe01e1725a62ab2d784909583 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-16T13:29:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariana Pedrosa Marcassa.pdf: 990874 bytes, checksum: 45236e8fe01e1725a62ab2d784909583 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-29 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / We begin by using both an important study dating back to 1793 and chronicles of foreign travelers, physicians and naturalists to launch a discussion on the way “banzo” was sketched by the colonial mentality in the first half of the 19th century. Skeptical to the idea that “banzo” is a continuation of Western melancholia, such as the notion appears throughout the period in which Brazil was formed, a different approach is suggested so as to both distinguish “Banzo” as an affect and grant it its own singular psycho-pathological statute as an infirmity produced exclusively by the colonial slave-based logic. It is, then, from an essentially clinical point of view, which questions the effects of the historical formation of Brazil in the forces making up its contemporary reality, that this study sets out to explore “banzo” artistically, as a sonorous affect reverberating for five centuries in all sort of everyday practices, being the operation of its logic most felt in Brazil's interior or what is commonly called “deep Brazil”. In the final stages of this study, the banzo affect and its sonorities are broached in terms of the relation between banzo and the state of ‘voicelessness’, in what leads us to an encounter with the modal system in music and the voice-related experimentations of twentieth century artists. These encounters and experimentations will lead us to propose the voice as a language immanent to itself (and not subordinated to speech). In line with such immanence we propose the creation of a “song of the voice” (in the wake of Demétrio Stratos) capable of calling forth the particles of the “Banzo” affect in an attempt to displace its own destiny, and present it in its affirmative, creative potency / Esta pesquisa traça uma discussão sobre o modo em que o banzo foi sendo desenhado pela mentalidade colonial através de um importante estudo de 1793 e alguns relatos de viajantes, médicos e naturalistas estrangeiros, que estiveram no Brasil durante a primeira metade do século XIX. Desconfiando da ideia de que o banzo seja um prolongamento da melancolia ocidental, tal como aparece ao longo de sua formação no Brasil, propõe-se outra abordagem para este afeto na tentativa de diferenciá-lo, oferecendo-lhe um estatuto próprio e singular enquanto enfermidade psicopatológica produzida pela lógica escravocrata e colonial. É, portanto, de um ponto de vista essencialmente clínico que este estudo se propõe a explorar o banzo artisticamente enquanto um afeto sonoro, que reverbera e atua há mais de cinco séculos através de diferentes tipos de práticas diárias, fazendo ouvir a lógica, que poderíamos chamar, de um “Brasil profundo”. Na fase final deste estudo, o afeto banzo e suas sonoridades são aqui abordados através da relação do banzo com o estado do sem-voz, conduzindo-nos para o encontro com o mundo da música modal e as experimentações vocais de artistas do século XX. Tais relações e encontros nos levará propor a voz como uma linguagem imanente a si mesma (e não subordinada à fala). Em linha com esta imanência propomos a criação de um canto da voz (na via de Demetrio Stratos) capaz de convocar as partículas do afeto banzo na tentativa de deslocá-lo: apresentá-lo na sua potência afirmativa e criadora
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O trabalho escravo contemporâneo e a atuação da CPT no campo (1970 - 1990)

Silva, Moisés Pereira da 20 December 2016 (has links)
Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-01-16T12:26:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rui Yoshio Kunugi.pdf: 1090396 bytes, checksum: cfc7e50f74f6aea8be63988a92c8c984 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-16T12:26:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rui Yoshio Kunugi.pdf: 1090396 bytes, checksum: cfc7e50f74f6aea8be63988a92c8c984 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-21 / This text is the result of research on slave labor in the field, in the Araguaia-Tocantins2, and the mediation of the Pastoral Land Commission, between the 1970s and 1995. The interest in understanding the slave labor in the country was born of previous research (Silva 2011) which studied the work of the CPT in land disputes in the Amazon. It was noticed that the occasion was significant efforts of pastoral workers in fighting the slave labor that in the field, was also implicated in the problem of land concentration. The effort, in addition to presenting the slave labor contours, try to identify the mechanisms that prolong their stay in Brazilian society and in this stay, understand the settings of the actions and speeches of mediators in addressing the contemporary slave labor. The role of workers, fleeing farms and denounce, is the action of the substrate of the mediators, also considering that the pastoral workers define their action from the demands of rural workers and squatters. The mobilization of individuals, nations and institutions is strategy of the mediators in the struggle in defense of rural workers. The forms of mediation are diverse, but the visibility of violence in the country was the main strategy to confront this violence / Esse texto é o resultado de uma pesquisa sobre o trabalho escravo no campo, na região do Araguaia-Tocantins1, e a mediação da Comissão Pastoral da Terra, entre as décadas de 1970 e 1995. O interesse em entender o trabalho escravo no campo nasceu de uma pesquisa anterior (SILVA 2011) em que se estudou a atuação da CPT nos conflitos agrários na Amazônia. Percebeu-se à ocasião que era significativo o esforço dos agentes pastorais no enfrentamento ao trabalho escravo que, no campo, estava implicado também no problema da concentração da terra. O esforço foi, além de apresentar os contornos do trabalho escravo, procurar identificar os mecanismos que prolonga a sua permanência na sociedade brasileira e, nessa permanência, entender as configurações das ações e discursos dos mediadores no enfrentamento ao trabalho escravo contemporâneo. O protagonismo dos trabalhadores, que fogem das fazendas e as denunciam, é o substrato da ação dos mediadores, considerando, inclusive, que os agentes pastorais definem a sua ação a partir das demandas de trabalhadores rurais e posseiros. A mobilização de sujeitos, nações e instituições constitui estratégia dos mediadores na luta em defesa dos trabalhadores do campo. As formas da mediação são diversas, mas a visibilidade à violência no campo constituiu a principal estratégia de enfrentamento dessa violência
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Origins of the Old South: Revolution, Slavery, and Changes in Southern Society, 1776-1800

Spooner, Matthew P. January 2015 (has links)
The American Revolution and its aftermath posed the greatest challenge to the institution of slavery since the first Africans landed in Jamestown. Revolutionary defenses of the natural equality of man provided ammunition for generations of men and women opposed to racial subordination while the ideological strains of the struggle sounded the death knell for slavery in Northern states and led significant numbers of Southerners to question the morality and safety of slaveholding. Most importantly, the bloody and chaotic war in the South provided an unprecedented opportunity for slaves to challenge their bondage as tens of thousands of black men and women fled to the British, the swamps, or the relative anonymity of the cities. In examining the “reconstruction” of Southern slavery in the post-Revolutionary decades, Merging social, military, and economic history, "Origins of the Old South" examines how, in the attempt to rebuild their society from the ravages of war, black and white Southerners together created the new and historically distinct slave society of the “Old South.” The first two chapters of the dissertation demonstrate how the struggle to contain the disorders of a civil war amongst half a million enslaved African-Americans transformed the Southern states—the scene of the war’s bloodiest fighting after 1778—into a crucible in which men, land, and debt melted into capital. State governments redistributed thousands of slaves and millions of acres of land to purchase supplies and raise troops from within a weary populace; the estates of many of the South’s most important planters, comprising roughly ten percent of the region’s real and personal wealth, were confiscated and sold at auction at a fraction of their value; and wartime prestige coupled with the departure of prominent loyalists allowed a legion of “new men” to come into control of the new state governments. The result was the ascendance of a new class of merchant planters, who pushed the locus of Southern development inland, and major changes in the contours of black life in the region. The remaining three chapters of the dissertation examine these twinned consequences of the Revolution over the following three decades. Chapter three follows the experience of enslaved men and women after the war, tracing their movement throughout the Atlantic World and across the boundary between slavery and freedom during the conflict. Chapter four then looks at the impact of the region's ill-fated antislavery push during and immediately after the war, while chapter five shows how early national state governments drove slavery's expansion and closed the revolutionary moment in the process.
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A escravidão em São Mateus/ES: economia e demografia (1848-1888) / Slavery in São Mateus/ ES: economics and demographics (1848-1888)

Russo, Maria do Carmo de Oliveira 29 November 2011 (has links)
O presente estudo tem por finalidade abordar aspectos demográficos e econômicos da escravidão em São Mateus, região do norte do Espírito Santo, na segunda metade do século XIX. O porto da vila de São Mateus (cidade a partir de 1848), considerado um vetor de desenvolvimento, escoava a produção agrícola regional, principalmente a farinha de mandioca e, posteriormente, o café, abrigando também um ativo mercado de escravos. Colocamos em destaque certas características das estruturas agrárias e sócio-econômicas da região de São Mateus, procurando demonstrar a importância da instituição escravista em tal contexto, assim como as especificidades da escravidão nesta área. Para tanto, consultamos e analisamos documentos cartoriais da cidade - livros do Notariado ou Livro de Notas - do Cartório de 1º. Ofício, onde se encontram registros de alforrias, de compra e venda, hipotecas, doações, aluguel de escravos, dentre outros, relativos ao período de 1863 a 1888. Utilizamos também os registros oficiais referentes à escravidão produzidos no âmbito do governo provincial, sobretudo os Relatórios dos Presidentes da Província a partir da década de 1840 e a legislação contida no Ementário das Leis Provinciais (1835-1888) e nas Posturas Municipais, no período estudado. Neste contexto procurou-se destacar as peculiaridades regionais inerentes à região em foco, sua formação histórica, sua oligarquia agrária, assim como sua relação com o porto marítimo de Conceição da Barra, outrora, Barra de São Mateus, para num segundo momento, analisar especificamente a escravidão nesta região no período estudado, destacando as contribuições que a pesquisa nesta documentação traz para o conjunto da historiografia capixaba. / In this essay it is intended to address some aspects of the slavery in São Mateus a port town located in the north of the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil in the nineteenth centurys second half. The São Mateus village harbor a vector for the development of that region at the time used to gather and distribute all the agricultural production of the region mainly the manioc flour, which was considered to be one of the best products on the coast and later, the coffee, sheltering a large slave market. Special attention is given to certain features of São Mateus agricultural, social and economical structures, aiming to demonstrate the importance of the slavery institution in context as well as the specificity of slaveholding in the region. Therefore, analyses and consultations of Notation Books have been carried out in the Registry Office, where a range of documentes have been found, such as slaves liberation registers, documents of purchase and sale, mortgages, donations, slaves rental, among others, through 1863 to 1888. We also use official records relating to slavery produced under the provincial government, particularly the reports of the Presidents of the Province from the 1840s and the legislation contained in Ementário of Provincial Laws (1835-1888) and Municipal Posturesin the period studied. In this context was to highlight the regional peculiarities inherent in the region in focus, its historical formation, their agrarian oligarchy, as well as its relationship with the seaport of Conceição da Barra, then called Barra de São Mateus, for a second time, analyze, specifically slavery in this region in the period studied, highlighting possible contributions that search this documentation can bring the whole historiography of the state of Espírito Santo.
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Os meia-cara: africanos livres em São Paulo no século XIX / The \"meia-cara\": liberated African people in São Paulo at 19th century

Bertin, Enidelce 13 December 2006 (has links)
Este trabalho tem por objeto os africanos livres que estiveram sob custódia do Estado prestando serviços em estabelecimentos públicos da Província de São Paulo. Através deles objetiva-se a análise das vicissitudes das relações entre africanos livres e Estado, percebendo os diferentes significados da tutela para ambas as partes. Sendo conhecedores da singularidade de sua condição, os africanos livres colocaram-se diante das autoridades como indivíduos livres, o que se chocava frontalmente com a prática dos seus tutores. Para os administradores públicos, os africanos livres não deveriam estar à parte da lógica escravista, por isso toda a \"proteção\" que a tutela guardava relacionava-se com uma perspectiva de manutenção da escravidão. Procurando perscrutar a resistência cotidiana dos africanos livres ao domínio representado pela tutela, pudemos desvendar os intensos laços de solidariedade mantidos entre eles, bem como a preservação da memória de uma experiência histórica comum, muitas vezes alinhavada desde a travessia atlântica. Portanto, nossa abordagem está centrada no entendimento dos africanos livres como sujeitos históricos, inseridos nas relações escravistas e atuantes no sentido da resistência à escravização latente. Porque desconfiamos que a presença dos mesmos na sociedade escravista do oitocentos foi mais ativa e efetiva do que apontava o discurso dos administradores públicos, nosso desafio está na reconstituição da experiência vivida por eles. Ao focalizar essa população, portanto, objetiva-se uma análise de sua experiência histórica como trabalhadores tutelados nos estabelecimentos públicos de São Paulo. / This research aims the liberated Africans who had been under the State guard, serving on the province of São Paulo public institutions. The main subject of this research is the analysis of diverging relationship between liberated African and the State, realizing the different meanings of \"public tutorship\" for both parts. Aware of their singular condition, liberated African faced the public authorities as free individuals, which was clearly against their tutors practice. For public administrators, liberated African shouldn\'t be unaware of the slavery logic, and this is why all \"protection\" by means of tutorship was related to a perspective of slavery maintenance. Trying to investigate liberated African\'s daily opposition to tutorship, we could disclose strong links of brotherhood kept among them, as well as the preservation of a common historic experience memory, often sketched since the atlantic traverse. Therefore, our approach is focused on the comprehension of liberated Africans as historical individuals, deepened into slavery relationship and acting to oppose latent slavery. Because we suspected that their presence in the 1800\'s was more active and effective than pointed out by the public administrators speech, our challenge is on restoration of experience lived by them. By focusing that population so, we aim to get an analysis of their historical experience as workers under the tutorship of public institutions in São Paulo.
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A imprensa negra paulista entre 1915 e 1937: características, mudanças e permanências / The black press of São Paulo between 1915 and 1937: features, changes and continuities

Carvalho, Gilmar Luiz de 30 November 2009 (has links)
O objetivo deste trabalho é mostrar a função que teve a Imprensa Negra como instrumento de reinvindicação de direitos e combate à exclusão sócio-político-econômica do negro em São Paulo, numa época de urbanização e crescimento industrial acelerados.Em decorrência das origens dessa exclusão, pretende-se relembrar o papel das Irmandades, Associações e primeiros jornais como focos iniciais de resistência à mesma. No entanto, o período escolhido para a pesquisa é aquele compreendido entre os anos de 1915 e 1937, quando, a par do interesse de congregar os negros através da educação e de outros meios, a Imprensa começa a reinvindicar os direitos que os mesmos deveriam ter como cidadãos integrantes da sociedade paulista e, por extensão, brasileira. A implantação do Estado Novo em 1937 determina o fechamento dos partidos políticos, associações e jornais a eles ligados, razão pela qual a historiografia considera a data como a de decadência dos jornais negros e, portanto, de suas reinvindicações. Tentaremos mostrar, entretanto, como as disputas ideológicas e por poder entre as lideranças, mudando o perfil de atuação dos periódicos, foram decisivos para a decadência do caráter reinvindicatório dos mesmos, tendo se iniciado bem antes do golpe de Getúlio Vargas. / The aim of this master thesis is to show the role of Black Press as instrument of rights claiming and the struggle against social, political e economical exclusion of Brazilian black people in São Paulo in a time of fast urbanization and industrial growth. Considering the origins of that social exclusion, this paper intends to remember the role of Brotherhoods, Associations and former black journals as the initial process for fighting that exclusion. Nevertheless the chosen period for this research is between 1915 and 1937, when, besides the interest in congregating the blacks through education and other means, the Black Press starts claiming the rights that people should have as integrated citizens in São Paulo society and, as a consequence, in Brazilian society. The implementation of Estado Novo in 1937 determines the political parties shut down as well as the associations and journals associated to them, being this event the main reason the Historiography considers that year as the highlight of black journals decadence, so do their claims. However, we will try to demonstrate how the ideological disputes and struggle for power among the leaders, by the acting profile of journals, were crucial for the decadence of journals claiming approach, getting started quite before the Getúlio Vargas coup.
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Honra e escravidão: um estudo de suas relações na América Portuguesa, séculos XVI-XVIII / Honor and slavery: a study of relationships in portuguese America, XVI-XVIII century

Farias, Jackson Fergson Costa de 11 August 2008 (has links)
A dissertação analisa as relações entre a honra e a escravidão na América Portuguesa. Procura compreender como a propriedade, a exploração e a boa administração dos escravos deram origem a uma nova acepção de honra, gerada a partir de uma relação interpessoal fundada na concentração máxima de poderes nas mãos do senhor e na destituição de todos os privilégios, direitos e poderes dos escravos. Como sentimento intrínseco ou valorização externa, de sua origem em Portugal medieval até o Antigo Regime, a honra foi se adaptando e se moldando aos interesses, aos valores e às concepções político-sociais dos mais variados grupos. Esses múltiplos significados correntes em Portugal, em todos os seus componentes potencialmente instáveis e dinâmicos, atravessaram o Atlântico entre o final do século XVI e meados do XVIII e passaram a figurar nas obras dos diversos letrados coloniais que, em suas reflexões sobre as relações de gênero, classe e raça apontavam a honra como um princípio fundamental na organização da sociedade colonial. / The dissertation analyzes the relationships between honor and slavery in Portuguese America. It tries to understand how the ownership, the exploration and the good management of slaves originated a new meaning of honor, produced by an interpersonal relationship grounded in the maximum concentration of powers on the masters side and in the deprivation of all privileges, rights and powers on the slaves\' side. As an intrinsic feeling or public valuation, and from its medieval origins to the Old Regime Portugal the honor was adapted to and shaped by the interests, values and political-social conceptions of the most varied groups. Those multiples meanings currents in Portugal in all their potentially unstable and dynamic components crossed the Atlantic between the end of the XVIth century XVI and the first half of the XVIIIth century, being present in the works of the several colonial men of letters who in their reflections on gender, class, and race relations pointed the honor as a fundamental principle of colonial society.
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Museu de Artes e Ofícios: o trabalho em exposição / Museum of Arts and Crafts: work on display

Gonçalez, Sofia 13 September 2018 (has links)
Esta dissertação buscou recuperar o processo de concepção e implantação de uma exposição de longa duração, bem como analisar sua expografia, a fim de revelar as ideias mobilizadas pelas estratégias e recursos expográficos. Trata-se da exposição do Museu de Artes e Ofícios de Belo Horizonte, aberto ao público em 2006. Situado na antiga Estação Ferroviária Central da cidade, o museu expõe, em sua exposição de longa-duração, um amplo acervo relativo às práticas de produção pré-industrial no Brasil, composto de objetos e instrumentos de trabalho associados a diversos ofícios manuais. Essa exposição, inovadora no país devido ao tema que rege o Museu, utiliza-se de estratégias expográficas que remetem à experiência francesa dos ecomuseus. Percorrer o processo de constituição deste museu, revelando suas matrizes e referências museológicas, bem como a abordagem do acervo e as ideias mobilizadas por seu discurso expográfico especialmente no que tange à memória do trabalho e à representação dos trabalhadores são os objetivos desta dissertação. / This dissertation looked for to recover the process of conception and implantation of a long term exhibition, as well as to analyze it in order to reveal the ideas mobilized by the strategies and exploitative resources. It is the exhibition of the Museum of Arts and Crafts of Belo Horizonte, opened to the public in 2006. Located in the old Central Railway Station of the city, the museum exhibits, in its long-term exhibition, an ample collection related to the practices of production pre-industrial in Brazil, composed of objects and instruments of work associated with various manual crafts. This exhibition, innovative in the country due to the theme that governs the Museum, uses expographics strategies that refer to the French experience of ecomuseums. The objectives of this dissertation are to go through this museum\'s process of constitution, revealing its matrixes and museological references, as well as the approach to the collection and the ideas mobilized by its expographic speech, especially about the memory of work and workers\' representation.
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Between bedroom and courtroom : legal and literary perspectives on slaves and the freed in Augustus' adultery legislation

Bratton, Amy Eleanor January 2017 (has links)
This thesis offers an investigation into the roles of slaves and freedmen and the extent of their involvement in the Romans’ legal and literary discourse on adultery and the legislation introduced to address it – the lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis. It also seeks to assert their place more firmly within the context of the Roman familia and explore what this means in the context of the adultery statute. This thesis reasserts the position of slaves and freedmen within the Roman familia as a whole and, more specifically, as individuals deserving and requiring of consideration within the context of the analysis of the adultery statute and other social legislation. A multi-disciplinary approach has been adopted in this thesis to address the multiple avenues apparent in the investigation. A detailed analysis of the primary extant source of the statute, found in Justinian’s Digest, was carried out to determine the extent of the inclusion of the servile and freed in adulterous relationships and how much consideration was shown to them by the legal writers, or jurists. As a corollary to this analysis, a range of literary works, from Ovid, the Elder Seneca, Quintilian, Tacitus and Suetonius, was examined to provide a counterpoint to the legal perspective on the inclusion of slaves and freedmen within adulterous relationships, and, subsequently, the familia. Re-assessing the roles of slaves and freedmen within adulterous relationships and the legislation aimed at controlling this crime also necessitates another reassessment – namely, that of the motivations behind the introduction of the statute itself. Notoriously difficult to determine, this thesis posits, in conclusion, that, rather than being an instrument of the moral indignation of the contemporary Roman population, the adultery legislation was instituted as an instrument of economic control to counter the potential dilution of the wealth of the elite of Rome by illegitimate children. Slaves and freedmen were, then, a crucial element of a deceptively complex piece of legislation typically assumed to affect and address members of the Roman elite only.
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Esclaves, dépendants, deportés : les frontières de l'esclavage en Babylonie au premier millénaire avant J.-C. / Slaves, dependants, deportees : the boundaries of slavery in first millennium BCE Babylonia

Dromard, Benjamin 10 November 2017 (has links)
Au sein de la société babylonienne (actuel Irak) de la seconde moitié du premier millénaire avant Jésus, plusieurs modes d'organisation du travail coexistent : travail rémunéré, esclavage, différentes formes de dépendance. Ma thèse se concentre sur le statut et activités des esclaves et dépendant(e)s rattaché(e)s aux temples, ainsi que celui des déportés d'origine judéenne et ouest-sémitique déplacés de force en Mésopotamie par l'empire néo-babylonien lors de la conquête de la Syrie-­Palestine. Ces trois groupes sociaux ont pu être analysés comme étant soumis à des formes d'esclavage. Je tente une étude précise de leurs activités économiques, leur implication dans différents secteurs (agriculture, commerce, artisanat, construction), que ce soit en milieu rural ou urbain, tout en confrontant cela avec la documentation juridique et judiciaire disponible. Ainsi, je tente de montrer les frontières théoriques des statuts des esclaves, dépendant(e)s et déporté(e)s, mais aussi comment la seule lecture juridique est insuffisante pour cela. Ma thèse s'intéresse ainsi particulièrement à distinguer les hiérarchies socio-économiques présentes dans chacun de ces groupes de travailleurs afin de percevoir les dynamiques sociales qui se jouent. La constitution d'une classe de travailleurs intermédiaires (esclaves-agents, dépendants gestionnaires, déportés disposant de capital à investir ...) est un fait important à analyser de ce fait. Quelles possibilités de mobilité sociale et d'émancipation en Babylonie au premier millénaire avant J.-C. pour les membres de ces groupes? C'est l'enjeu de mon étude, pleinement inscrite dans l'histoire du travail. / Several modes of production exist in first millennium BCE Babylonia (modem Iraq): wage-labour, slavery, different forms of dependency. My thesis is mainly focused on the study of the status and the activities of slaves and temple dependants, with the addition of Judean and West Semite deportees, forced by the neo-Babylonian to live and work in Mesopotamia after the conquest of Syria-Palestine. These three social groups have been analysed as different forms of slavery in the historiography. My aim is for a precise study of their economic activities, their part in several economic sectors (agriculture, trade, craftsmanship, building) in rural and urban context. I try to put this in contrast with the available legal documentation. Therefore, I try to show the theoretical boundaries of the statuses of slaves, dependants and deportees and how their legal analysis isn't sufficient. My dissertation aims for revealing the hierarchies present inside those three groups of labourers and the social dynamics at play. The making of a class of intermediary workers (slave agents, dependants having an administrative position, deportees investing capital ... ) is an important historical fact needing an analysis. Are there possibilities for social mobility and emancipation in their favour in first millennium BCE Babylonia? Answering this is one objective of my study, grounded in the perspective of an history of labour.

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