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De patrones y clientes: sobre la continuidad de las prácticas sociopolíticas en la Antigua Palestina
Fecha
2004Registro en:
1667-9202
Autor
Pfoh, Emanuel O.
Institución
Resumen
Abstract: The emerging entities of Iron Age II Palestine have always been regarded
as a true manifestation of statehood. From an evolutionary point of view, what
constitutes statehood are quantitative features rather than qualitative differential ones.
This paper points out the necessity of reconsidering from a critical perspective the
sociopolitical nature usually granted to the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The
archaeological and epigraphical records show a primacy of kinship at the inner
communal realm and of patronage at the inter-communal realm. Therefore, taking
into account the postulate that statehood cannot evolve from within the community,
as some authors have suggested, and since patronage could be an extended way of
kinship, it is proposed that during the Bronze and Iron Ages in Palestine existed a
continuity of the socio-political practice of patronage which excludes the appearance
of statehood as a native and main sociopolitical formation.