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DESCRIPTION:\nThe Department of\nAnthropology Presents Dr. Lars Rodseth\, A
 ssociate Professor of Anthropology at\nSyracuse University.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n
 His talk titled&nbsp\; Debt\nBondage and Bourgeois Freedom: Purifying Labo
 r in Guyana and Trinidad&nbsp\;\nwill be held on Thursday November 6th fro
 m 4:00-5:00 in 204 Maxwell\nHall.&nbsp\; \n\n&nbsp\;\n\n“Freedom” and “sla
 very” are mutually defining\nterms of modern ideology.&nbsp\; This much ha
 s been established by historians\nand social theorists working on the clos
 e\, paradoxical relationship between the\nEuropean Enlightenment and the A
 frican slave trade.&nbsp\; Yet the\nfreedom-slavery divide is just one exa
 mple of a much broader\, “purifying”\nimpulse—the tendency in the West sin
 ce the seventeenth century to carve up the\nworld according to the ontolog
 ical binary of “nature” and\n“society.”&nbsp\;&nbsp\;In this light\, debt 
 bondage and other forms of dependent\nlabor become anomalous “hybrids”—nei
 ther the natural state of free labor nor\nthe artificial institution of sl
 avery.&nbsp\; This paper examines debt bondage\nin two British colonies as
  a case study in the purification of labor as a\nnatural category.&nbsp\; 
 Shifting definitions of “bondage” in British culture\,\nespecially in case
 s of apprenticeship or indentured servitude\, provide an\nironic counterpo
 int to liberal notions of labor as either free or\nenslaved.&nbsp\; Drawin
 g together the insights of Louis Dumont (1970)\, Bruno\nLatour (1993)\, an
 d Susan Buck-Morss (2009)\, I seek to understand how the bourgeois\nconcep
 t of freedom was produced and refined\, not just in opposition to slavery\
 nbut within a wide and problematic field of hybrid practices. &nbsp\;
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SUMMARY:Anthropology Speaker - Lars Rodseth
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p>\nThe Department of\nAnthropology Pr
 esents Dr. Lars Rodseth\, Associate Professor of Anthropology at\nSyracuse
  University.\n\n&nbsp\;</p><p><br></p><p>\n\nHis talk titled&nbsp\; <i>Deb
 t\nBondage and Bourgeois Freedom: Purifying Labor in Guyana and Trinidad</
 i>&nbsp\;\nwill be held on Thursday November 6<sup>th</sup> from 4:00-5:00
  in 204 Maxwell\nHall.&nbsp\; \n\n&nbsp\;\n</p><p><br></p><p>\n“Freedom” a
 nd “slavery” are mutually defining\nterms of modern ideology.&nbsp\; This 
 much has been established by historians\nand social theorists working on t
 he close\, paradoxical relationship between the\nEuropean Enlightenment an
 d the African slave trade.&nbsp\; Yet the\nfreedom-slavery divide is just 
 one example of a much broader\, “purifying”\nimpulse—the tendency in the W
 est since the seventeenth century to carve up the\nworld according to the 
 ontological binary of “nature” and\n“society.”&nbsp\;&nbsp\;In this light\
 , debt bondage and other forms of dependent\nlabor become anomalous “hybri
 ds”—neither the natural state of free labor nor\nthe artificial institutio
 n of slavery.&nbsp\; This paper examines debt bondage\nin two British colo
 nies as a case study in the purification of labor as a\nnatural category.&
 nbsp\; Shifting definitions of “bondage” in British culture\,\nespecially 
 in cases of apprenticeship or indentured servitude\, provide an\nironic co
 unterpoint to liberal notions of labor as either free or\nenslaved.&nbsp\;
  Drawing together the insights of Louis Dumont (1970)\, Bruno\nLatour (199
 3)\, and Susan Buck-Morss (2009)\, I seek to understand how the bourgeois\
 nconcept of freedom was produced and refined\, not just in opposition to s
 lavery\nbut within a wide and problematic field of hybrid practices. &nbsp
 \;</p><p></p>
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