The Myth of the Chief: Prestige Goods, Power, and Personhood in the European Bronze Age
The Myth of the Chief: Prestige Goods, Power, and Personhood in the European Bronze Age
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酋长的神话：欧洲青铜时代的名贵物品、权力和人格
DOI：
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199572861.013.0011
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发表时间：
2013
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D. Fontijn
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作者：
Joanna Bruck;D. Fontijn
本文讲述了青铜时代欧洲酋长的神话。它表明，欧洲青铜时代社会最初被贴上“武士贵族”或“小王子”的标签，但现在通常被想象为酋长国。文章将酋邦定义为由酋长领导的等级森严的集权社会，通常被视为官僚国家与平等社会之间的发展桥梁。然后研究了青铜作为社会分层到来的一个重要因素及其作为声望商品的使用，并引入了“财富金融”的概念。文章还认为，现在是时候对欧洲青铜时代文献中经常包含的制度化和男性主导的等级制度形式形成一种新的思考方式了。
This article addresses the myth of the chief in Europe during the Bronze Age. It shows that the European Bronze Age societies were originally labelled as ‘warrior aristocracies’ or ‘petty princes’, but are now generally imagined as chiefdoms. The article defines chiefdoms as ranked and centralised societies that are led by chiefs and are usually seen as a developmental bridge between bureaucratic states and egalitarian societies. It then studies the adoption of bronze as an important factor in the arrival of social stratification and its use as prestige goods, and introduces the concept of ‘wealth finance’. The article also argues that it is time to form a new way of thinking about the forms of institutionalised and male-dominated hierarchies which are often included in literature on the European Bronze Age.