IMHICIHU   13380
INSTITUTO MULTIDISCIPLINARIO DE HISTORIA Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
capítulos de libros
Título:
Coercion, creation, intervention: three capacities of the early Egyptian state
Autor/es:
CAMPAGNO, MARCELO
Libro:
Decorum and experience: Essays in ancient culture for John Baines
Editorial:
Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
Referencias:
Lugar: Oxford; Año: 2012;
Resumen:
The innovation that the state logic introduces in a world previously organized by the kinship logic can clearly be seen when the focus is placed on the practices that such a minority provided with the monopoly of coercion could do with it. These practices, in diverse ways, would be certainly perceived by all members of the new society, but they are “innovations” especially from the analytical point of view. By the end of this essay, there will be occasion for a brief reflection on this matter. But in what follows, I would like to propose —without pretensions of completeness— that these innovations are connected with the three main doing capacities that the state displays from its very onset: capacity of coercion, capacity of creation, and capacity of intervention. I believe these capacities characterize the Egyptian state throughout its historical existence, and believe —as suggested by Baines (1995: 146) for a broader context— there are no reasons to suppose that these general characteristics of the Egyptian state were not there from the beginnings. If this is so, the question about the innovations of the Egyptian state will be understood here as the question about the advent of these three doing capacities.