Raiding, trading, and feasting : the political economy of Philippine chiefdoms / Laura Lee Junker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Junker, Laura Lee, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chiefdoms--Philippines--History.

Chiefdoms.

Political anthropology--Philippines.

Political anthropology.

Ethnohistory--Philippines.

Ethnohistory.

Ethnoarchaeology--Philippines.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Ceremonial exchange--Philippines.

Ceremonial exchange.

Philippines--Commerce--Asia.

Philippines.

Asia--Commerce--Philippines.

Asia.

Philippines--Social life and customs.

Philippines--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As early as the first millennium A.D., the Philippine archipelago formed the easternmost edge of a vast network of Chinese, Southeast Asian, Indian, and Arab traders. Items procured through maritime trade became key symbols of social prestige and political power for the Philippine chiefly elite. Raiding, Trading, and Feasting presents the first comprehensive analysis of how participation in this trade related to broader changes in the political economy of these Philippine island societies. By combining archaeological evidence with historical sources, Laura Junker is able to offer a more nuanced examination of the nature and evolution of Philippine maritime trading chiefdoms. Most importantly, she demonstrates that it is the dynamic interplay between investment in the maritime luxury goods trade and other evolving aspects of local political economies, rather than foreign contacts, that led to the cyclical coalescence of larger and more complex chiefdoms at various times in Philippine history.A broad spectrum of historical and ethnographic sources, ranging from tenth-century Chinese tributary trade records to turn-of-the-century accounts of chiefly "feasts of merit," highlights both the diversity and commonality in evolving chiefly economic strategies within the larger political landscape of the archipelago. The political ascendance of individual polities, the emergence of more complex forms of social ranking, and long-term changes in chiefly economies are materially documented through a synthesis of archaeological research at sites dating from the Metal Age (late first millennium B.C.) to the colonial period. The author draws on her archaeological fieldwork in the Tanjay River basin to investigate the long-term dynamics of chiefly political economy in a single region.Reaching beyond the Philippine archipelago, this study contributes to the larger anthropological debate concerning ecological and cultural factors that shape political economy in chiefdoms and early states. It attempts to address the question of why Philippine polities, like early historic kingdoms elsewhere in Southeast Asia, have a segmentary political structure in which political leaders are dependent on prestige goods exchanges, personal charisma, and ritual pageantry to maintain highly personalized power bases.Raiding, Trading, and Feasting is a volume of impressive scholarship and substantial scope unmatched in the anthropological and historical literature. It will be welcomed by Pacific and Asian historians and anthropologists and those interested in the theoretical issues of chiefdoms.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Comparative Chronologies 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1600

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1. Foreign Trade and Sociopolitical Evolution

Chapter 2. Sources for the Study of Prehispanic Philippine Chiefdoms

Part II: Structure and Evolution of Complex Societies

Chapter 3. Chiefly Authority and Political Structure

Chapter 4. Political Cycling in Philippine Chiefdoms

Chapter 5. Social Stratification in Contact Period Societies

Chapter 6. The Dynamics of Social Ranking: Changing Patterns of Household Wealth and Mortuary Differentiation

Part III: Foreign Trade and Internal Transformation

Chapter 7. The Long-Distance Porcelain Trade

Chapter 8. Mobilizing Resources: Regional Production, Tribute, and Lowland- Upland Exchange Systems

Chapter 9. The Evolution of Craft Specialization

Chapter 10. Alliance and Prestige Goods Exchange

Chapter 11.Competitive Feasting

Chapter 12. Raiding and Militarism as a Competitive Strategy

Chapter 13. Trade Competition and Political Transformations in Philippine Chiefdoms

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-460) and index.

ISBN:

9780824864064

0824864069

9780585334837

0585334838

OCLC:

45843033