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.
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.
“逃离国家”的话题,是由James Scott教授在关于Zomia地区历史的研究中提出的。作为一种关于地域空间的研究,Scott引入垂直空间视角去观察Zomia地区的政治和社会结构与历史过程,他由个人及群体的能动性去解释高地社会的政治体制,把作为历史行动者的山地人群的“无国家”政治...
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...
评分非本人原创。庄雅仲副教授原文发表于《台湾民zhu季刊》第7卷第1期(2010年3月),175-178页。 庄雅仲个人网页:http://hs.nctu.edu.tw/Hakka-F-faculty/Faculty_07_YCChuang.htm 书评原文:http://www.tfd.org.tw/docs/d7t1/175-178.pdf —————————————————...
评分我们日常所惯用的概念经常会误导人。例如说到“国家”,我们的自然反应便会以为那是像我们眼下所熟知的那种,在固定领土疆界内的排他性政治实体,没有任何非国家行为体可以和它争夺对人民的支配权。但这倒不如说是现代产生的一种特殊情形,在历史上大部分时期的大部分地区,情...
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...
参考Edmund Leach对缅甸高地的类型学分析
评分identities--a bandwidth of possibility for adjusting the relation of individuals to the state effect
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?
评分参考Edmund Leach对缅甸高地的类型学分析
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