The Art of Not Being Governed

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.

出版者:Yale University Press

作者:James C. Scott

页数:464

出版时间:2009-09-29

价格:USD 35.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780300152289

图书标签:人类学社会学东南亚政治学历史人类学Anthropology社会scott

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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.

读后感

斯科特已经开辟出了“zomia”的新的区域研究范式，对于大陆东南亚和中国西南研究来说应该也是一本必读书目吧。该书内容繁复，资料芜杂，让一位对东南亚几乎不甚了解的农村研究学者来翻译，错误也是一大堆，维舟老师已经在其书评下作出了很多勘误，很期待能读到台湾的译本，不知...  

处在伊河上的陆浑水库，位于洛阳嵩县，是上世纪六十年代修建的。在夏商时期，生活在这里的是一批被称为西戎的人，而“戎”是古代对少数民族的称呼。不敢想象位于中原地区洛阳的下属县曾是汉人文化边缘地带。那时中华文明的版图很小，夏商的历史简直可以称为河南的历史。史书说...

引 言 宣统三年（1911）夏天，川滇边务大臣赵尔丰在四川康区的“改土归流”事业进入尾声。康区改土归流的目标是把原土司地区从四川省划分出来，单独设立西康省，原土司管理下的各地方将改设为八九十个州县，由外派流官治理。[1]赵尔丰与助手傅嵩炑抵达康定（打箭炉），收缴完...  

处在伊河上的陆浑水库，位于洛阳嵩县，是上世纪六十年代修建的。在夏商时期，生活在这里的是一批被称为西戎的人，而“戎”是古代对少数民族的称呼。不敢想象位于中原地区洛阳的下属县曾是汉人文化边缘地带。那时中华文明的版图很小，夏商的历史简直可以称为河南的历史。史书说...

用户评价

mind-blowing but too 啰嗦

满足了我那颗共产主义和国际主义的内心的同时，鞭笞了那颗脆弱的无政府主义的小心脏。

逃离国家——逃离的是臣民的身份，而不是与国家的关系。实际上，山民一直在寻找与国家的适当关系，才能让自己生存下来。

逃离国家——逃离的是臣民的身份，而不是与国家的关系。实际上，山民一直在寻找与国家的适当关系，才能让自己生存下来。

太ideological了, 为了迎合自己的无政府立场, 只要碰到governing就说成坏的, 碰到egalitarianism就说成好的, 什么现象都往这上面套, 连文字丢失都说是是为了防止form a state... 此外就是太啰嗦了, 几句话正着说反着说, 感觉没有显然的逻辑联系也凑在一起说, 所以读起来很慢...