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).
ISBN: 9781493918157
Schlagworte:
Intercultural communication > Asia, Central > History > To 1500.;Asia, Central > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Parallelausgabe: Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire : Archaeology, Mobility, and Culture Contact (Print version:)
Online-Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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