作者:
James C. Scott
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[美国] 詹姆斯·C·斯科特 出版社: Yale University Press 副标题: A Deep History of the Earliest States 出版年: 2017-8-22 页数: 336 定价: USD 26.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780300182910
Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secu...
Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family—all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction.
Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the “barbarians” who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and nonsubject peoples.
对于中文读者来说,耶鲁大学教授詹姆斯·斯科特(James Scott)并不是一个陌生的名字。他的著作《农民的道义经济学》(The Moral Economy of the Peasant, 1976)、《弱者的武器》(Weapons of the Weak, 1987)、《国家的视角》(Seeing Like a State, 1999)以及《逃避统治的...
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0 有用 本杰明·海瑟薇 2025-02-24 07:08:19 美国
为什么要为文明的崩溃而感到遗憾呢?毕竟,国家的形成就是对各种生命体的驯化。与之相比,做一个“野蛮人”反而是一种有权利去选择的生活方式
0 有用 Deetz 2020-04-05 06:38:54
关于早期聚落和国家的瘟疫部分也是应景……不过不知道Scott有没有读过《基里尼亚加》……
2 有用 Wai Man 2018-01-19 16:25:26
“for a state to be reliant on a staple that could easily be taxed - and grain was the ideal” 所以在某些不种谷物的高地(例如中国西南和东南亚高地)“政教不及,人迹罕到”
0 有用 方若 2022-08-06 18:31:20
人类种植水稻的数千年活动一方面使得水稻成为南方的主要幸存植物,另一方面也使得稻农成为南方的主要人类。这个复合体凭借着高效的粮食产出,使得犹豫的忽必烈也最终接受它们的存在。植物从最初的狗尾巴草异化成为水稻,同样的,人也从最初的形态异化成为稻农。我们作为稻农的异化值得自省,到底增强了哪些?到底失去了哪些特性?本书成为我2022年最佳阅读体验。
0 有用 行✈知🧡 2020-06-01 20:35:07
《反对谷物文明:早期国家的形成历史》