James C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology, and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Programme, Yale University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them?slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an ?anarchist history,? is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states.
In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of ?internal colonialism.? This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott?s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.
从序言就可以很明确的看出,斯科特希望改变的是长期以来对于东南亚历史和政治关系的民族国家话语式的理解,他引入了van Schendel所提出的Zomia概念,认为整个东南亚地区的山地-谷地模式以及多如牛毛的族群并不是一个单纯的纵向关系,也不是序列性的进化发展关系,而是一种互生...
评分 评分(《云南社会科学》2019年第三期) | 王晓毅 如果将社会发展看做一个简单的线性发展过程,山地社会往往被看做是落后的,并被认为会在先进文明的影响下,逐步发展起来。但是斯科特在《逃避统治的艺术》一书中,构建了与这种想象不同的山地文明,山地为山地居民提供了保护,从而...
评分解构极端现代主义:从前现代国家发展中寻求启发:以人民的名义来反对个人,以程式化、扭曲化、精确静止的理念实现独裁统治。而这些理念背后反映出的统治者试图以极具说服力的现代工具和社会欲望为诱饵,强加于人民权威意识形态的行为,其实在无政府主义的抗争中就已经被解构了...
评分作者探究的对象是包括中国西南在内的所谓赞米亚高地,读来很亲切,也很有启迪性。书中涉及到了史学(政治史、边疆史、民族史、经济史)、人类学、社会学等多个方面,内容十分丰富。这书的翻译真心不错,读起来轻松,不别扭。我同时也购过作者所著的上海译林版的《农民的道义经...
为了证明自己的观点而打造证据的痕迹太明显。
评分西南研究不得不看。略读加精读,两天总算搞定,关于高地社会族群认同bandwidth的讨论非常有趣。
评分西南研究不得不看。略读加精读,两天总算搞定,关于高地社会族群认同bandwidth的讨论非常有趣。
评分在推荐单里很久才看。作者在自己的序中坦白自己经常一派胡言。当然我之前写了西方论述要求逻辑清晰表达一个观点,基本事实对错次要,按这个标准这是一本新颖好书。用书中观点,地形决定无政府状态,高地交通限制政府通知,人民选择逃离政府,套用到我国现在的带路工程上的话,难怪西方辩论不断重提意识形态斗争,我觉得老掉牙又不是冷战,然而从他们的观点,我们修通了去世界各国的路就把我们的制度和影响带过去了嘛。又想到国内其实仍然有很多不理会现代国家政治的部族比如比较出名的泸沽湖,这些地方能挺多久?
评分教授今天还送了我一本
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