Aspectos del tribalismo político en el levante meridional durante la Edad del Bronce Tardío

Abstract: Can the politics of the Canaanite kings in their small urban centers, as reflected in the Amarna letters (mid-fourteenth cent. BCE), be called to some extent tribal? Beyond the (now old) anthropological discussion about “what is a tribe?,” can we see tribalism as a main factor in the South...

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Autor principal: Pfoh, Emanuel
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Departamento de Historia. Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente 2021
Materias:
TRIBUS
NOMADISMO
PARENTESCO
EDAD DE BRONCE
HISTORIA SOCIAL
HISTORIA POLITICA
EGIPTO
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/11719
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Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) de Universidad Católica Argentina
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topic TRIBUS
NOMADISMO
PARENTESCO
EDAD DE BRONCE
HISTORIA SOCIAL
HISTORIA POLITICA
EGIPTO
spellingShingle TRIBUS
NOMADISMO
PARENTESCO
EDAD DE BRONCE
HISTORIA SOCIAL
HISTORIA POLITICA
EGIPTO
Pfoh, Emanuel
Aspectos del tribalismo político en el levante meridional durante la Edad del Bronce Tardío
topic_facet TRIBUS
NOMADISMO
PARENTESCO
EDAD DE BRONCE
HISTORIA SOCIAL
HISTORIA POLITICA
EGIPTO
description Abstract: Can the politics of the Canaanite kings in their small urban centers, as reflected in the Amarna letters (mid-fourteenth cent. BCE), be called to some extent tribal? Beyond the (now old) anthropological discussion about “what is a tribe?,” can we see tribalism as a main factor in the Southern Levant’s politics? If we attend to the political scene of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1550–1200 BCE), many of the activities of the local socio-political actors—even those settled and with an urban political life—do indeed match the rationale and expectations found in tribal situations and relationships, as documented in the modern ethnographic record of the Middle East: alliances and coalitions, personal subordination, political reciprocity, etc. The key matter in this interpretation is to transcend monolithic models like “tribe” or “city-state” and focus instead on the nature of the evidenced political practice, namely what the main actors do and how they behave to gain influence and prestige and to exert power and control over other political actors. In that way, there would be no need for expecting a mandatory presence of proper tribes in order to find tribal politics in action. This paper assesses the data in the Amarna archive from this perspective, noting the relevance of kinship, patrimonial structures and patron-client relationships in order to understand how local political communities were related to and interacted with the great powers of the period (particularly Egypt) which intervened in the land.
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title Aspectos del tribalismo político en el levante meridional durante la Edad del Bronce Tardío
title_short Aspectos del tribalismo político en el levante meridional durante la Edad del Bronce Tardío
title_full Aspectos del tribalismo político en el levante meridional durante la Edad del Bronce Tardío
title_fullStr Aspectos del tribalismo político en el levante meridional durante la Edad del Bronce Tardío
title_full_unstemmed Aspectos del tribalismo político en el levante meridional durante la Edad del Bronce Tardío
title_sort aspectos del tribalismo político en el levante meridional durante la edad del bronce tardío
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Departamento de Historia. Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente
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