摘要
古代两河流域的收养法律不健全,研究收养制度必须依赖于收养契约。古代两河流域的收养关系可以分为收养男性、收养女性和收养奴隶三大类;男性可以被收养为儿子、儿子—学徒、儿子—女婿以及兄弟,女性可以被收养为女儿、儿媳、女儿或儿媳以及姊妹。古代两河流域的收养制度不但可以弥补家庭缺陷,而且可以传承手工技艺或扩大再生产、转让禁止买卖的土地和变相地进行人口买卖.
The study of adoption in ancient Mesopotamia should rely on the adoption contracts rather than laws of adoption. Males were adopted as son, son-in-law, son-apprentice, and brother; females were also subject to adoption as daughter, daughter-in-law, daughter or daughter-in-law, and sister; adoption was not limited to free people, adoption of slave was not unusual in ancient Mesopotamia. Not only could Mesopotamian adoption make up family defects, but also could hand on handicrafts or expand reproduction, transfer real estate that was forbidden to sell, purchase human in disguised form.
出处
《史学月刊》
CSSCI
北大核心
2006年第11期84-92,101,共10页
Journal of Historical Science
关键词
古代两河流域
收养
收养契约
ancient Mesopotamia
adoption
adoption contract
