IMHICIHU   13380
INSTITUTO MULTIDISCIPLINARIO DE HISTORIA Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Relaciones de patronazgo en el Levante meridional: de la Edad del Bronce Tardío a la Edad del Hierro
Autor/es:
EMANUEL PFOH
Lugar:
Buenos Aires
Reunión:
Jornada; Jornada «Relaciones de patronazgo en el Mediterráneo oriental entre el IV y el I milenio a.n.e.»; 2018
Institución organizadora:
IHAO-UBA
Resumen:
This contribution aims at showing the potentiality of the concept of patronage, or patron-client relations, for understanding the working of socio-politics in the ancient Southern Levant. Patronage is well documented in the ethno-historical record of the Levant from Roman to Ottoman times. However, when dealing with pre-Roman Palestine, the practice of patronage is usually ignored or downplayed by mainstream biblical and historical scholarship, or also overshadowed by more current notions of ?tribalism?, ?ethnic states?, and even more anachronistically, ?nation-states?. If the political anthropology of ancient Palestine is addressed through its practices, as reflected in the epigraphic and archaeological records, instead of its institutions (many times, built upon biblical images, for instance, of a united monarchy, and therefore of full-blown statehood and a national territory), a different historical reconstruction appears, one more realistic and related to the long-term social structures of the region and at the same time less dependent on biblical paraphrases. This communication will therefore address the heuristic value of patron-clientage for understanding the political arrangement of hierarchical society in Palestine from the late fourth to the first millennium BCE, its dynamic building on kinship structures and its vertical linkage to states and empires.