Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire : Archaeology, Mobility, and Culture Contact.

1. Verfasser: Honeychurch, William, 1966-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York, NY : Springer, 2014.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (330 pages).
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire : Archaeology, Mobility, and Culture Contact (Print version:)
Online Zugang: Available online
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505 0 |a Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Author Biography -- 1 Voices from the Steppe -- 1.1 Geographical Contexts -- 1.2 Historical Contexts -- 1.3 Conceiving of Nomadic Peoples and Their Polities -- 1.4 Lattimore and Anthropology: Approaches to the Nomad as State Builder -- 1.5 Shaping Alternatives for Inner Asia: Mobility, Politics, and Interaction -- 1.6 Outline of Chapters to Come -- References -- 2 Overcoming the Tyranny of Distance: Culture Contact and Politics -- 2.1 Novelty from Afar: The Jew's Harp -- 2.2 Do New Foods Beget New Appetites? The Oreo Cookie that Wasn't -- 2.3 Walls and Relationships: Building New Inequalities -- 2.4 Interregional Theory and Social Transformations -- 2.5 How Do Things Move and Become Novel? -- 2.6 What Counts as Long Distance, Cross-Cultural, or Interregional? -- 2.7 How Does Inter-cultural Process Change Social Organization? -- 2.8 Foundations of Entanglement: Relationships, Negotiation, and Contingency -- 2.9 Social Relationships -- 2.10 Social Negotiation, Groups, and Social Order -- 2.11 Politics and Social Organization -- 2.12 Entanglement, Inter-contingency, and the Uncertain Politics of Change -- 2.13 Upscaling and Political Community as a Pathway to Statehood -- References -- 3 Solving Contradictions: Nomads and Political Complexity -- 3.1 Nomads, the State, and Explaining the Xiongnu Polity -- 3.2 Preceding the State -- 3.3 From Leaders to Rulers -- 3.4 Organization of the State -- 3.5 What Makes a Pastoral Nomad: Variation and Commonality -- 3.6 What Makes a State: Scale, Duration, and Contingency -- 3.7 Mobility, Relation, and Spatial Politics -- 3.8 The Xiongnu State: A Macro-Region Transformed and Empires Made -- 3.9 Preceding the State: Early Entanglements, 1400-700 BC -- 3.10 From Leaders to Rulers: Regional Consolidation and State Emergence, 600-200 BC. 
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505 8 |a 3.11 Organizational Trends of Xiongnu Statehood: Spatial Politics, 200 BC-200 AD -- 3.12 Origins of an Amalgamated Imperial Tradition in East and Inner Asia -- References -- 4 The Heartland of Inner Asia: Mongolia and Steppe Pastoral Nomadism -- 4.1 More than just Grasslands: The Inner Asian Interior of a Macro-Continent -- 4.2 Examples of Inner Asian Pastoral Nomadism from Mongolia -- 4.3 Egiin Gol: A Northern Mongolian River Valley -- 4.4 Baga Gazaryn Chuluu (BGC): Granite Peaks of the Gobi -- 4.5 Archaeology at Egiin Gol and Baga Gazaryn Chuluu -- References -- 5 The Late and Final Bronze Age Cultures of Mongolia, 1400-700 BC -- 5.1 Documenting the Bronze Age -- 5.2 Western and West-Central Regions: Khirigsuurs and Deer Stones of Mongolia -- 5.3 Eastern and South-Central Regions: Ulaanzuukh-Tevsh Culture and Slab Burials -- 5.4 Habitation Sites, Economy, and Lifeways -- 5.5 Local and Regional Perspectives -- 5.6 Summary: Bronze Age Experiments in Subsistence, Transport, Monuments, and Leadership -- References -- 6 The Surrounding Bronze Age World: Kazakhstan and South Siberia, 1300-700 BC -- 6.1 Semirech'e and Kazakhstan: A View from the Western Periphery -- 6.2 Minusinsk and Southern Siberia: Connections to the Northwestern Forest Steppe -- 6.3 Early Iron Age Transformation: Political Communities of the Scythian Tradition -- 6.4 East Versus West in Inner Asia -- References -- 7 At the Edge of Inner Asia: The Northern Zone and States of China, 1200-700 BC -- 7.1 South-Central Inner Mongolia: The Ordos and the Chariots of Shang -- 7.2 Southeastern Inner Mongolia: Cultural Hybrids and the Horses of Zhou -- 7.3 Follow the Horses: Steppe Influences on Statehood in China -- 7.4 How the Eastern Bronze Age Came to an End: The Politics of Entanglement -- References -- 8 Nomadic Alternatives: Forming the State on Horseback -- 8.1 Histories of the Xiongnu. 
505 8 |a 8.2 Overview of the Xiongnu Archaeological Record -- 8.3 Archaeological Trajectories Toward Statehood: The Prelude, c. 600-300 BC -- 8.4 Patterns of Transition in the Egiin Gol Valley -- 8.5 Gobi Desert Evidence from Baga Gazaryn Chuluu (BGC) -- 8.6 A Regional Political Community: From Local to Macro-regional Perspectives, 300-200 BC -- 8.7 Re-imagining the Macro-region: Multiple Centers and Multi-lateral Contacts -- 8.8 Disruption and Upscaling: A Complex Macro-region in the Making -- 8.9 Along the Way to Becoming a State -- References -- 9 Not of Place, But of Path: Nomads on the World Stage -- 9.1 Xiongnu Landscapes at Egiin Gol and Baga Gazaryn Chuluu: Spatial Politics at Work -- 9.2 Patterns of Xiongnu Integration and Centralization -- 9.3 Macro-regional Conversions as Spatial Politics: The Early Silk Roads -- 9.4 Historical Overview of the Xiongnu and the Western Regions -- 9.5 Xiongnu Mortuary Archaeology and Riches from the West -- 9.6 Silk Roads Evidence in the Gobi Desert -- 9.7 The Western Interaction Sphere of the Late First Millennium BC -- 9.8 Steppe Roads: A Re-orientation of Perspective -- References -- 10 Steppe Cores, Sedentary Peripheries, and the Statecraft of Empire -- 10.1 Reciprocal Entanglements: Historical Experiments in Imperial Statecraft -- 10.2 Epilogue: Mobile Legacies in a Globalizing World -- 10.3 Modern Mongolia: A Nation of Herders -- 10.4 Discourses of Development and Modernity -- 10.5 An Ancient and Unchanging Nomadic Pastoralism? -- 10.6 Is the Center Always Central? -- 10.7 Globalized Herders -- References -- Index. 
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