Titlebook: Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire; Archaeology, Mobilit William Honeychurch Book 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York

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Overcoming the Tyranny of Distance: Culture Contact and Politics, relationships, exchange, and political organization. By drawing on the anthropological concept of entanglement, this chapter sets out a model for social interaction, interregional contacts, and local politics that is suitable for the Inner Asian case study.

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The Heartland of Inner Asia: Mongolia and Steppe Pastoral Nomadism,ption of Inner Asian geography and environments, I discuss the significant results of Simukov’s research on Mongolian mobility patterns during the early twentieth century. I then follow with an overview of recent ethnography at the two study areas of Egiin Gol and Baga Gazaryn Chuluu where modern mobile herding is the dominant local lifeway.

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,The Late and Final Bronze Age Cultures of Mongolia, 1400–700 BC,ngolia is a critical region. This chapter provides an overview of major sites and material patterns of the Late and Final Bronze Age archaeological record from Mongolia. I pay particular attention to issues of subsistence and mobility, monumentality and social differentiation, and the development of metallurgical and transport technologies.

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Solving Contradictions: Nomads and Political Complexity,itical process. These definitions set a foundation for the “spatial politics” approach to Eurasian steppe political organization. Based on the spatial politics concept and interaction theory from the previous chapter, I propose a new explanation for Xiongnu political emergence and statehood.

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Nomadic Alternatives: Forming the State on Horseback,u archaeology and site types. Survey and excavation results from two local areas in Mongolia provide evidence for early political changes associated with the Xiongnu period, and this inspires a new explanation for how the first nomadic state came to be.

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Book 2015ic 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 deve

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Book 2015cal, these polities also relied on techniques of distributed authority, multiple centers, flexiblestructures, 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 un

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