IMHICIHU   13380
INSTITUTO MULTIDISCIPLINARIO DE HISTORIA Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
capítulos de libros
Título:
Tres modos de existencia política: jefatura, patronazgo y Estado
Autor/es:
CAMPAGNO, MARCELO
Libro:
Parentesco, patronazgo y Estado en las sociedades antiguas
Editorial:
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Referencias:
Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2009; p. 341 - 351
Resumen:
The prevailing modes of leadership in Ancient societies are connected with the monarch, as the head of the State. However, beyond these figures, other modes of leadership have occupied a place of relevance in those societies. In fact, before the emergence of States, and also coexisting with them in independent or subordinated ways, the modes of chieftainship related to prevalence of kinship as the logic of social organization, or those associated to patronage dynamics, express other kinds of political links perhaps less perceptible but nevertheless decisive for the comprehension of the social realm in the Ancient world. If kings are characterized through their power, here it is suggested that kin-chiefs are defined through their prestige, and patrons are defined through their authority. It is also proposed that these modes of leadership are better understood if the analytical focus is displaced from the individual who exerts the function (king, chief, patron) to the social logic that sustain the existence of this kind of figures (State, kinship, patronage).