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The Geography of Power in Medieval Japan (Hardcover)
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The Geography of Power in Medieval Japan (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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In this reevaluation of the estate system, which has long been
recognized as the central economic institution of medieval Japan,
Thomas Keirstead argues that estates, or shoen, constituted more
than a type of landownership. Through an examination of rent rolls,
land registers, maps, and other data describing individual estates
he reveals a cultural framework, one that produced and shaped
meaning for residents and proprietors. Keirstead's discussion of
peasant uprisings shows that the system, however, did not define a
stable, closed structure, but was built upon contested terrain.
Drawing on the works of Foucault,de Certeau, and Geertz, among
others,this book illuminates the presuppositions about space and
society that underwrote estate holding. It traces how the system
reordered the social and physical landscape, establishing identity
for both rulers and subjects. Estate holders, seeking to counter
the fluid movement of populations across estate boundaries, pressed
into service a social distinction between "peasants" and
"wanderers." Peasant rebels made use of the fiction that the estate
comprised a natural community in order to resist proprietorial
exactions. In these instances, Keirstead contends, the estate
system reveals its governing logic: social and political divisions
were articulated in spatial terms; power was exercised (and
contested) through geography. Originally published in 1992. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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