LEADER 05009nam 22006855 450 001 9910484973203321 005 20200919031036.0 010 $a1-4939-1815-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-1-4939-1815-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000277339 035 $a(EBL)1964991 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001386551 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11994470 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001386551 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11374314 035 $a(PQKB)10943571 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4939-1815-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1964991 035 $a(PPN)18308859X 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000277339 100 $a20141105d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire $eArchaeology, Mobility, and Culture Contact /$fby William Honeychurch 205 $a1st ed. 2015. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cSpringer New York :$cImprint: Springer,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (330 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4939-1814-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Voices from the Steppe -- Chapter 2: Overcoming the Tyranny of Distance: Culture Contact and Politics -- Chapter 3: Solving Contradictions: Nomads and Political Complexity -- Chapter 4: The Heartland of Inner Asia: Mongolia and Steppe Pastoral Nomadism -- Chapter 5: The Late and Final Bronze Age Cultures of Mongolia, 1400-700 BC -- Chapter 6: The Surrounding Bronze Age World: Kazakhstan and South Siberia, 1300-700 BC -- Chapter 7: At the Edge of Inner Asia: The Northern Zone and States of China, 1200-700 BC -- Chapter 8: Nomadic Alternatives: Forming the State on Horseback -- Chapter 9: Not of Place, but of Path: Nomads on the World Stage -- Chapter 10: Steppe Cores, Sedentary Peripheries, and the Statecraft of Empire. 330 $aThis 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 the eastern Eurasian steppe 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. 606 $aArchaeology 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aCulture?Study and teaching 606 $aArchaeology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X13000 606 $aAnthropology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X12000 606 $aRegional and Cultural Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411000 607 $aAsia, Central$xPolitics and government 607 $aAsia, Central$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aAsia, Central$xAntiquities 607 $aCentral Asia$2fast 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aArchaeology. 615 0$aAnthropology. 615 0$aCulture?Study and teaching. 615 14$aArchaeology. 615 24$aAnthropology. 615 24$aRegional and Cultural Studies. 676 $a300 676 $a301 676 $a930.1 700 $aHoneychurch$b William$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01227981 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484973203321 996 $aInner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire$92850934 997 $aUNINA