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Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire - Archaeology, Mobility, and Culture Contact (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
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Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire - Archaeology, Mobility, and Culture Contact (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
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This monograph uses the latest archaeological results from Mongolia
and the surrounding areas of Inner Asia to propose a novel
understanding of nomadic statehood, political economy, and the
nature of interaction with ancient China. In contrast to the common
view of the Eurasian steppe as a dependent periphery of Old World
centers, this work views Inner Asia as a locus of enormous
influence on neighboring civilizations, primarily through the
development and transmission of diverse organizational models,
technologies, and socio-political traditions. This work explores
the spatial management of political relationships within the
pastoral nomadic setting during the first millennium BCE and argues
that a culture of mobility, horse-based transport, and
long-distance networking promoted a unique variant of statehood.
Although states of the eastern steppe were geographically large and
hierarchical, these polities also relied on techniques of
distributed authority, multiple centers, flexible structures, and
ceremonialism to accommodate a largely mobile and dispersed
populace. This expertise in "spatial politics" set the stage early
on for the expansionistic success of later Asian empires under the
Mongols and Manchus. Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire
brings a distinctly anthropological treatment to the prehistory of
Mongolia and is the first major work to explore key issues in the
archaeology of eastern Eurasia using a comparative framework. The
monograph adds significantly to anthropological theory on
interaction between states and outlying regions, the emergence of
secondary complexity, and the growth of imperial traditions. Based
on this approach, the window of Inner Asian prehistory offers a
novel opportunity to investigate the varied ways that complex
societies grow and the processes articulating adjacent societies in
networks of mutual transformation.
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