if anyone knows anyone who has any knowledge on sedentarization practices carried out by states against nomadic/otherwise non-sedentary peoples, please let me know. i've got some pointed research questions i'd like to ask.
@exiliaex Just as long as we remember that sendentary peoples don't necessarily form states or make war upon nomadics...I wish you luck in your research.
@FinalOverdrive uhhhhhhhhhhhhh 👀
@FinalOverdrive i am 100% trying to show how the logic of states produces denomadization. not necessarily saying this about "settled people" but... it depends
@exiliaex Fair enough. You made your point. Just bear in mind nomadic peoples can form states of a kind as well.
@FinalOverdrive this is something ive wanted to study. can you point me in the right direction? i dont know where to start.
@exiliaex The Dawn of Everything is a good start, and it has references to look up as well.
@FinalOverdrive thank you greatly 🙏
I realize you didn't ask for a reading list buuuuuuut I'll throw a few titles out if any seem interesting
Also by graeber: "Possibilities: Essays On Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire" "Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams"
I'd also throw in "the art of not being governed" and "against the grain" by james c. scott
"Autonomous resistance to slavery and colonization" and "the dragon and the hydra" by Russell Maroon Shoatz
"society against the state" by Pierre Clastres
this one has a frustratingly yt bothering perspective that slips into a irritating romanticism but contains a good amount of critical engagement and direct conversations with peoples in the process of being between nomadism and increasing forced state incorporation: "Original wisdom" by Robert wolff
@0utside0utsider @FinalOverdrive i've read multiple of these, but thank you for the list! i'll definitely look into the ones i've not yet read, thank you!!
