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Shepherds at Umma in the Third Dynasty of Ur

Interlocutors with a World beyond the Scribal Field of Ordered Vision

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ID9086576
AutoresRobert Mcc Adams (0009-0001-1183-7522, University of California San Diego, autor de correspondencia), Robert Adams (0009-0006-5817-1154)
Año2006
Volumen49
Número2
Páginas133-169
Fecha de publicación2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-4995 • E-ISSN: 1568-5209
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/156852006777502090
OpenAlexW1967173048
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18

The Third Dynasty of Ur was a highly bureaucratized, late 3rd millennium B.C.E. empire centering in southern Mesopotamia. Its state superstructure, known almost exclusively from many tens of thousands of looted cuneiform tablets, has long been studied. However, these sources deal only indirectly or not at all with the impacts of imperial rule on the great mass of the subject population. Drawing upon an earlier prosopographic study of animal husbandry for the single province and city of Umma, this article focuses on shepherds, the lowest level of the administration, as a means of penetrating that wall of silence. As interlocutors, needing to face and be credible in both directions, they become the basis for a more inclusive view of the nature of the Ur III state. Largely indifferent to the condition of its subjects and to the complex realities of the economic tasks imposed on them by heavy taxes and arduous corvée labor, the administrative elite emerges as not only repressive, but more narrowly extractive rather than broadly managerial in its intent and operations. The overriding focus in pursuit of which it was highly successful (although for less than a century), appears to have been the flow of resources that would enhance its own hegemony and well-being. La Troisième Dynastie d'Ur était un empire hautement bureaucratisé de la seconde moitié du 3^e millénaire avant l'ère chrétien, centré sur la Mésopotamie du sud. Sa superstructure étatique, connue presque exclusivement grâce à des dizaines de milliers de tablettes cunéiformes pillés, a été longuement étudiée. Toutefois, ces sources ne portent pratiquement sur l'impact qu'avait l'autorité impériale sur la population assujettie. Puisant dans une étude prosopographique antérieure sur l'élevage dans la seule province et ville d'Umma, cet article concerne les bergers, personnages situés au niveau le plus bas de l'administration, dont l'étude doit permettre de percer ce mur de silence. En tant qu'interlocuteurs crédibles tournés à la fois vers le bas comme vers le haut, ils peuvent fournir les bases d'une image plus globale de l'état d'Ur III. Il ressort l'image d'une élite administrative plus ou moins indifférente aux conditions des sujets et aux réalités complexes des taches économiques qui leur sont imposés par des impôts importants et des corvées pénibles ; elle était non seulement répressive mais animée par des intentions et des opérations plus extractives que managerielles. L'essentiel du fonctionnement étatique, poursuivi avec beaucoup de succès (bien que pendant moins d'un siècle), semble avoir été d'assurer un flux de ressources à même d'augmenter sa propre hégémonie et bien-être

Ancient history · Art · Elite · Empire · Hegemony · Humanities · Mesopotamia · Modernization theory · Political science · Population · Sociology · State (computer science) · Ancient Near East History · Demography · History · Law · Linguistics and language evolution

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Obras citantes distintas18
Citas por año1,2
Intervalo de citas2011 - 2026 (16)
Velocidad de citacióncurrent
Altamente citadoNo
Tipos de citaNeutras: 17
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