 |
|
| Dominance in a Traditional State: The Kingdom of Kengtung | ||
| 作者 | Aijmer, Göran (著) |
|---|---|
| 出處題名 | Anthropos |
| 卷期 | v.110 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2015 |
| 頁次 | 43 - 62 |
| 出版者 | Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.nomos.de/ |
| 出版地 | Baden-Baden, Germany [巴登-巴登, 德國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Göran Aijmer, Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and currently associated with the Gothenburg Research Institute of the University. His research focuses on symbolic expression and articulation in fields like politics, economy, and religion. His regional projects have concerned southern China, Southeast Asia, and Melanesia. He has worked in many universities, including All Souls College, Oxford, the Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and the Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich. His publications include various articles in scientific journals like Journal of Anthropological Research , Oceania , Journal of Ritual studies , Modern Asian Studies , History and Anthropology, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , and Anthropos. |
| 摘要 | This article in historical anthropology concerns a traditional kingdom in the Shan States of upper Burma. It discusses the nature of Shan kingship in relation to cultural grammars of political articulation. The problem addressed is how a ruler of foreign extraction who has usurped power can exercise a dominance that is acceptable on moral grounds, an acceptance we refer to as authority. The conciliation between power and authority lay in the writing of a series of political contracts. In Kengtung these contracts have been given the shape of a historical chronicle of early events in the development of the country. In Kengtung, as in so many other polities in the region, the king's ability stems from his superiority of descent, his ancestry being linked with the gods of the higher sphere of existence. What he can do on earth depends on what contracts and agreements he can enter with spiritual forces that emanate from the terrain and underground. Iconic grammars organise instrumental idioms from an array of social relations, which are not givens but need symbolic construction. The ultimate political contract in the Shan States is Buddhism. |
| 目次 | Introduction 43 Situation of Kengtung 44 Some Notes on History 44 Township 44 Buddhism in Kengtung 45 Nobility and Political Organisation 45 The Symbolic Dominion: The Palace 46 The Symbolic Dominion: The Institution of saohpa as a Symbolic Topos 47 The Symbolic Dominion: The Construction of a King 48 The Symbolic Dominion: The Royal Presence in Some Festivals of the Calendar 49 Mythological Text as Local Tradition 50 Mythological Articulation: The Exordium of History 51 The First Episode: The King of the Forest 51 Episode Two: A Kingdom Rises from Water 52 Episode Three: The Chinese Angle 52 Episode Four: The Chinese Planters of Rice 53 Episode Five: How Kengtung Becomes Populated 53 Episode Six: The Emergence of a Celestial Dynasty 53 Episode Seven: The Royal Line Proliferates 54 Episode Eight: Mang Rai Conquers Kengtung 54 Episode Nine: Mang Rai Established a Theocracy 55 Episode Ten: The Colonization of Kengtung-Again 55 Episode Eleven: The China Connection 56 The Many Faces of Political Contract 56 The Symbolic Construction of the Political Contract 59 Kengtung as a Southeast Asian Kingdom 60 References Cited 61 |
| ISSN | 02579774 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 14 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.11.03 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.11.03 |
建議您使用 Chrome, Firefox, Safari(Mac) 瀏覽器能獲得較好的檢索效果，IE不支援本檢索系統。
