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16 - At the Dawn of Sijilmasa

New Historical Focus on the Process of Emergence of a Saharan State and a Caravan City

from Part III - Neighbours and Comparanda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

By
Chloe´ Capel
Edited by
Martin Sterry  and
David J. Mattingly
Martin Sterry
Affiliation:
University of Durham
David J. Mattingly
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
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Summary

The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu taught us in the early 1990s that to question the ‘genesis of the state’ is one of the most arduous tasks for the historian. Indeed, in essence, the state defines itself when it is already accepted and firmly installed. Then it produces instruments of recognition and domination, including symbolic ones, to confirm the social norm, the social order that it supervises or even imposes, and to validate this ‘fundamental consensus on the social world’ of which it is the guarantor. For instance, it is customary for historians to define a state by the establishment of taxation, which at first sight would be preliminary in any policy construction. However, Bourdieu, and Weber before him, pointed out that for this step to occur, it is necessary that the taxing authority has already been recognised by the social body and that the legitimacy of such an initiative has already been accepted by society.

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Urbanisation and State Formation in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond , pp. 594 - 620
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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