Le Nom, L'Ecrit, Le Non-Dit: mentalites rurales et "culture intermediairea[euro] dans le japon medieval

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Published in:Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2011-10, Vol.21 (4), p.537
Main Authors: Arntzen, Sonja, Mauclaire, Simone
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
14th century
Community
Diachronic analysis
Historical text analysis
History
Land tenure
Legitimacy
Medieval period
Peasants
Political power
Politics
Rural areas
Structuralism
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Summary:(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) This book will interest two different specialist audiences, one, historians of medieval Japan, particularly those researching rural history, and the other, cultural anthropologists, particularly those who espouse the structuralist approach of Claude Levi-Strauss. The central government sent officials out to the provinces to keep records of land and population, encourage expansion of lands under cultivation, keep public order, arbitrate local disputes and, most importantly collect tax revenue. On the one hand, the local leaders derived there sense of legitimacy from their ancient rootedness to the soil, yet on the other hand, an important aspect of their legitimacy came from the confirmation of status by central authority, which always went back ultimately to the primordial claim of precedence on the part of the imperial court. [...]this book is meticulously researched and clearly the result of a long period of study.
ISSN:1356-1863
1474-0591
DOI:10.1017/S1356186311000496